ZD Net Asia: RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) uses contactless tags to identify objects and is commonly used in the logistics and retail industries. You can also find RFID technology in your company's staff ID cards and train fare cards. Now that RFID technology is becoming affordable, you can buy RFID tags and readers to help you track things around the office, like folders, books and even laptops.

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PR-INSIDE.COM: AeroScout, Inc. : , the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility solutions for the healthcare industry, today reported strong growth of its healthcare client base, revenue and solution set in the first quarter of 2009. AeroScout added more than 30 new hospital clients in Q1, and 40 existing healthcare clients made additional purchases of AeroScout solutions.

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MarketWire: Awarepoint, a provider of ZigBee-based real-time location solutions (RTLS) for hospitals, will participate at The Health Management Academy's Spring 2009 CFO Forum Study Group. Awarepoint CEO Jason Howe will lead a session entitled: "How RTLS Can Help Rescue Hospital Budgets." This Academy Roundtable will explore RTLS implementation success factors for operational efficiency, patient flow and patient safety that impact financial and clinical outcomes with a high and quick return-on-investment (ROI).

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healthcareitnews: MORRISVILLE, NC – A developer of real-time location systems (RTLS) for hospitals has developed a new device designed to help patients with heart problems move about more freely and hospitals to keep better tabs on their valuable resources.

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Rfid Update: Researchers working with the Finnish Defence Forces tested an RFID-based patient identification system that utilized mobile phones and near field communication (NFC) to track casualties by their triage classification during a mock military exercise. The test occurred during the Finnish military's Pyry 2006 exercise. Results were published last year in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. Triage is a method of sorting and classifying large numbers of casualties. Typically, medical personnel use color-coded cards to tag each patient as immediate, delayed, minimal or expectant (dead or dying) using classifications developed by NATO. Efficiently tagging each patient and then communicating information about the number of casualties in each classification to receiving medical facilities can be a time-consuming and complex process.

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RFID Solutions: CenTrak, a leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and people indoors, recently announced that it has installed over 6 million square feet of its market-leading hybrid certainty-based Gen2IR and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system in hospitals and healthcare sites this year. The company has installed 16 facilities with enterprise-wide systems for both asset and people tracking in this year alone.

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RFID Solutions: CenTrak, a leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and people indoors, recently announced that it has installed over 6 million square feet of its market-leading hybrid certainty-based Gen2IR and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system in hospitals and healthcare sites this year. The company has installed 16 facilities with enterprise-wide systems for both asset and people tracking in this year alone.

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technically philly: Each patient who comes through the hospital is given one of the 350 special ID cards that gets synced with the patient’s medical file. The devices act as a GPS of sorts, relaying the location of the wearer to receivers throughout the hospital which transmit the data over a local area network to a computer running special software. Hospital employees can pull up the building’s floor plan and see in real-time where patients and co-workers are and how long they have been there. Doctors no longer have to go searching for equipment (and each other), while the time patients spend waiting around to be treated is being cut down.

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PR Urgent.com: MORRISVILLE, N.C. (June 2, 2009) – RadarFind Corporation, a healthcare technology company offering a patented enterprise-wide Real Time Location System (RTLS) for tracking medical equipment and patients, is introducing a new location tracking capability for cardiac telemetry devices – the first of its kind in the RTLS industry.

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the business mirror: THE Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system, originally used by manufacturers to track inventories, is now in wide use for other applications, including the tracking and retrieval of medical records. But soon, if the chief of Metro Manila’s police force were to be followed, it could also be an innovative way to ensure the safety and security of students while inside the school premises.

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