Explore Real-Time Active RFID Tracking In Healthcare

For hospitals, managing both human and capital assets is a complex and cumbersome process. Tracking hundreds of patients and staff members each day, not to mention valuable assets and equipment, can eat up thousands of hours of valuable time and resources each year. In an industry where time is more than just money, providers are looking to new uses of information technology to more effectively track assets and manage patient care.

An area that shows the most promise in addressing logistical healthcare issues is active RFID. The technology has evolved from passive to active integration using a hospital's Wi-Fi system to track everything from patients and assets to managing workflow systems. With active RFID, a hospital can access information to locate a patient, a wheelchair, or can determine the last time a patient was looked in on.