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To accomplish the goal of positive identification for its patients, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
investigated its options – and opted for a combination of bar code technology in concert with RFID.
In our case, we believe that active RFID tags are a robust technology
for applications that can utilize a pager-size device such as
tracking equipment, to track patient beds and to track staff who
are willing to wear an extra pager-sized device. For tracking staff, we specifically worked with managers to ensure that tags would
not be used in a punitive way (i.e., to record minutes in the lunch
room, trips outside to smoke, etc.). Our application of active RFID
is currently for equipment tracking in the emergency department
and has reduced the time to search for ventilators, IV pumps and
EKG devices to near zero.
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