RFSuite™ Tracking and Verification System
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Improve Quality Assurance and Workflow via RF Technology
RFSuite is a unique and innovative way to help assure the safe and effective delivery of radiation therapy. Utilizing RF technologies, RFSuite gives clinicians the ability to track staff, patients, charts and positioning devices as well as facilitating accessory verification on the linac table. CIVCO’s software, RFTrak™, provides a snapshot of where people and items are located in any facility, improving workflow and reducing patient wait time. The RFSeries™ line provides a broad array of products with RF tags.
Recently, the Medical Imaging Technology Association (MITA) presented a plan to the FDA titled “Radiation Therapy Readiness Check Initiative.” CIVCO’s RFSuite is designed with the capability to support the requirements set out in MITA’s plan. Designed to implement additional patient protection features, the plan encourages clinicians to confirm the correct patient is being treated, the correct treatment plan is delivered as intended, and the radiation therapy accessories and patient are positioned correctly prior to treatment. CIVCO’s RFSuite system will work in conjunction with this plan by confirming patient identity and verifying therapy accessories, thereby providing technologists, physicists and physicians with additional data and checkpoints needed to enable accurate and safe radiation therapy procedures.
RFSuite’s “hands free” design will also enhance the efficiency of the treatment verification process.
The Joint Commission (JCAHO) and the Code of Federal Regulations (42 CFR 482 Sec. 482.21) require the hospital to develop, implement, and maintain an effective, ongoing, hospital-wide, data-driven quality assessment and performance improvement program. RFSuite and other innovative CIVCO solutions are providing the clinical community with the tools needed to address the new regulations and requirements in radiotherapy.
