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AT&T Offers RFID Solution for Healthcare Industry

Posted on: Friday, 21 September 2007, 15:00 CDT

AT&T has released a new portfolio of radio frequency identification tracking solution for healthcare providers.

The RFID solution will provide a Wi-Fi enabled service to track equipment, devices and patients. A hospital staff can track the current or a historical location of mobile assets, such as blood pressure monitoring devices, EKG machines, gurneys, infusion pumps, crash carts, computers-on-wheels, wheelchairs and laptops, from a web browser. The solution will also alert healthcare staff if patients have wandered or been moved from their room. In addition, employees can use the data to manage mobile asset inventory across a single healthcare facility or multiple sites.

AT&T's RFID solution works with a local wireless network infrastructure and enables hospital staff to benefit from asset tracking. A Wi-Fi-based RFID tag sends a wireless signal at regular intervals to keep the system and asset locations up to date.

John Regan, vice president of business marketing at AT&T, said: "Healthcare organizations can now turn for the first time to a network services company to meet all of their RFID needs for products and services. Our RFID solutions help healthcare professionals and organizations make the most of their resources by ensuring the highest quality of patient care, while, at the same time reducing costs and increasing return on investment."

Source: Datamonitor

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