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RFID tags used to prevent post-op mistakes by hospitals
The University of North Carolina Hospitals recently implemented a radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging system to prevent surgical instruments from being left in patient bodies after surgery.
Near-field communication poised to be mHealth's next big wave
The floodgates may only have opened a crack, with just two near-field communication-enabled devices launched into the mHealth space in the past month--one for sleep tracking , and another for
Hospital to put radio tags on patients, staff
MultiCare Health System's Good Samaritan Hospital will attach radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to its staff and patients starting next month, the Puyallup, Wash.-based healthcare facility
UK hospital trials iPads on WLAN, but loves wireless asset tracking
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust in London has become the first pediatric hospital in the UK to adopt iPads for e-prescribing and medication management, and currently is running a
CSC: Wireless technologies, robots will transform care
Mobile and wireless technologies dominate a Computer Sciences Corp. list of six technologies that show promise for improving patient care and making a better working environment for clinicians,
RFID as effective as X-rays for sponge detection
It's been suspected for a long time, but the body of scientific literature is growing in support of the hypothesis that RFID could prevent surgical sponges from being left inside patients after
RFID applications in the hospital environment
RFID technology developer ThingMagic is in the midst of a 100-day online campaign to discuss "100 Uses of RFID." Last week, healthcare took center stage, as the Cambridge, Mass.-based vendor
Sutter hospital upgrades RFID infant tracker
Medical equipment gets lost within cavernous hospital buildings and, occasionally, so do patients, especially the smallest ones. A California hospital is beefing up security for infant patients by
Alabama firms team to develop wireless hand-washing monitoring system
Two Alabama companies are teaming up to develop an RFID system that will monitor hand washing in healthcare environments. Proventix Systems, headquartered in Birmingham, will pair its nGage employee
Wi-Fi use in healthcare jumps 60 percent since last year, ABI Research says
Just as the Department of Veterans Affairs was revealing plans to install Wi-Fi for patients and visitors in hundreds of facilities, along comes a new report from ABI Research to confirm that Wi-Fi
