Parco Completes Installation of Hospital RFID System

Parco Merged Media Corporation has completed the largest civilian ultra-wideband RFID-enabled location tracking system installation in the world at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC.

The system covers 2.5 million square feet at the 926-bed healthcare facility. The goals of the project are to address the daily tracking and location needs of a major tertiary medical center, to enhance the hospital’s emergency response capabilities, and to explore innovative analysis and application of the information collected.

The project at Washington Hospital Center is being implemented under the leadership of Dr Mark Smith, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the center. According to Dr Smith, Washington Hospital Center has embraced the real-time location technologies provided by Parco Wireless in order to meet the stringent requirements for accurate location reporting of assets and patients.

Parco has installed its patient and asset tracking systems throughout the entire hospital. When fully operational, the system will provide sub-room accuracy and real time reporting across the facility.

“By installing Parco location tracking throughout the hospital,” Dr Smith said, “we have deployed an innovative technology that will support the broad scalability of operations needed during a mass casualty incident or disaster. If we can track patients, key equipment, and key staff throughout the whole hospital, we will be able to increase the number of patients we can care for several times over.”