In The News: Hospital Tracks Patients

Trident Health System can now know where a patient is at all times. Their hopes: it will help them get patients in and out safer and faster.

NOTE TO VIEWERS: The technology depicted in this video is a real-time location system (RTLS) enabled by radio frequency identification (RFID) and infrared (IR) technology, not by a global positioning system (GPS). You can read more about this particular project here...

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From: GE Healthcare

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Asset Tracking & RFID Technology within the NHS

RFID and barcode tracking technology, both for equipment and for patients, is increasingly used by the National Health Service.

Medical and allied technology equipment is a major item of expenditure for most hospital trusts, for a variety of mobile equipment, ranging from the ubiquitous patient wheelchair all the way up to expensive portable X-ray and ultrasound machines.

Tracking those assets - in order to improve patient and staff convenience, as well as an improved return on investment...

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From: EdirectTV

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