Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Radianse in Hospitals

Friday, October 7, 2005

A Massachusetts company has created an active RFID product for hospitals that can track patients and equipment. Bypassing normal RFID uses, Radianse, Inc. is into its second year of production, averaging about one new hospital a month. As its founder and chief technology officer, Mike Dempsey, says: “We don’t do supply chain, we don’t do security. Our goal is to make hospitals safer and more efficient.”

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