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RFID technology helps Navy hospital track wounded soldiers and POWs in Iraq

Thursday, May 1, 2003

Contactless technology is playing a major role in tracking patients—U.S. personnel as well as prisoners of war—in Iraq. Fleet Hospital Three, a nine-acre, 116-bed facility operated by the U.S. Navy in Southern Iraq, is using radio frequency identification technology from Texas Instruments to track the status and location of hundreds of wounded soldiers, airmen, prisoners of war, refugees, and others arriving for treatment.

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