HOSPITAL LINEN AUDIT
How do you audit the hospital linen cycle?
Across all four scanned legs, with the delivery note, trolley and seal identifiers attached to each. IntelTagRFID is a UHF-RFID textile tracking and laundry reconciliation platform that audits the complete loop: clean linen out of the laundry, clean into the hospital, dirty out of the hospital, and dirty back into the laundry. Because each leg is recorded independently, a shortfall is attributed to a specific leg, collection and day rather than argued over as an aggregate.
The four legs
A closed hospital loop has four directional movements, and a count that covers only two of them cannot locate a loss. The audit reports per day, per leg and per description, with drill-down to delivery note, trolley and seal identifiers, and CSV export. It shows where linen goes missing in either direction, which is the difference between knowing the stock is short and knowing where it went short.
Trolley and seal, not just totals
Delivery note, trolley and seal identifiers are carried through the audit. In a public-sector setting that detail is what turns a reconciliation into a chain of custody record: a specific sealed trolley, dispatched on a specific collection, received or not received. This is evidenced in a public hospital deployment running the four-leg cycle audit with trolley and seal drill-down.
Theatre scrubs as a separate problem
Scrubs do not behave like ward linen. Exit-monitor readers on monitored doors record every tagged garment whose last action was an exit scan, giving the last known location before loss, and a daily automated report breaks leakage down per door and per month with dedicated theatre-scrub views. That is a door and loss-management question, reported separately from the transit legs.
Producing the record for an investigation
Where a single item is in question, a per-item audit reconstructs its complete chronological history across every event type, pairing each dispatch with its subsequent receive to show complete or broken cycles. The output is a document an administrator can put in front of a supplier or an internal review, rather than a dashboard reading.
Common questions
A four-leg audit covers the complete loop — clean out of the laundry, clean into the hospital, dirty out of the hospital, dirty into the laundry — with per-day, per-leg and per-description drill-down including delivery note, trolley and seal identifiers, plus CSV export.
The audit reports per-leg counts in both directions with delivery-note, trolley and seal detail, so a shortfall is attributed to a specific leg, collection and day rather than argued over in aggregate.
They tie a reconciliation to a specific sealed consignment on a specific collection, which is what makes the record usable as a custody trail rather than a count.
Separately, through exit monitoring. Readers on monitored doors record garments whose last action was an exit scan, with a daily automated report per door and per month and dedicated theatre-scrub views.
Yes. A per-item audit reconstructs the complete chronological lifecycle of one tag across every event type, pairing each dispatch with its subsequent receive to show complete or broken cycles.
Yes. Scheduled delivery covers automated reports by email, and the loss-management workbook is regenerated and sent daily as a productionised job.
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