RFID to save patients' lives during emergencies

Imagine a patient having a heart attack and the attendees sipping in the coffee house during a break, and no one knows where they are. How would you spot them and make them attend the patient at the right time and save his life? Here RFID comes to rescue.

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The Baltimore Convention Center will be enlivened by the TEPR conference - "Toward Electronic Patient Records" during May where the Patient Care Technology Systems, Parco Wireless, and Medical Records Institute (MRI) will jointly demonstrate the largest wireless locating and tracking technology ever in healthcare that uses simple RFID tags.

Up to 1,000 TEPR 2006 attendees will be given a RFID tag that will track their location by set "zones" throughout the conference. The zones will mimic a busy urban hospital. Attendees will be able to be tracked in the "Emergency Department", "Perioperative Suite", "Lab" or "Hospital Room".

Via: medgadget