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BlueBean to offer free seminar on how RFID saves you money in healthcare

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Are you a hospital or home health care executive looking to save a few bucks? Then tap into RFID for the long haul.

BlueBean, LLC, which dubs itself as “the RFID Solutions Company,” is holding the free seminar about how RFID can be used to track mobile assets and staff and ultimately save healthcare companies time and money. One caveat: it’s at the Ritz Charles in Indianapolis (so all you coastal health hubs might have a little trouble getting to the June 27 session).

But it could be the best flight you make, as BlueBean, calls RFID “a strategic weapon” in reducing healthcare industry costs.

We like the sound of that.


How Can RFID Save Time and Money in Healthcare? BlueBean Offers Answers at a Free Seminar

BlueBean, LLC 6/13/2006 9:42:22 AM

Hospital and healthcare executives, management and information technology staff will want to be in Indianapolis on June 27, 2006 for a free ‘RFID in Healthcare’ seminar. BlueBean, LLC, the RFID Solutions Company (www.bluebeanrfid.com), is holding the free seminar about how radio frequency identification technology (RFID) can be used to track mobile assets and staff and ultimately save healthcare companies time and money.

RFID is becoming a strategic weapon in reducing costs in the healthcare industry. The technology is easily integrated into a hospital’s wireless infrastructure. With a RFID system in place, healthcare facilities can easily track mobile assets as well as staff and patients.

How does this save time and money? Healthcare facilities lose thousands of dollars worth of equipment each year and staff members spend countless hours searching for mobile assets such as infusion pumps, x-ray machines, wheelchairs and patient monitoring devices. An RFID tracking system provides the visibility to immediately locate assets and personnel.

“The bottom line is that using RFID in healthcare is about the bottom line,” says BlueBean President Gregg Maggioli. “Some healthcare facilities have seen savings of millions of dollars per year by using RFID technology.”

In addition, the system allows patient care to be optimized. Staff and patients can be tracked using this technology allowing staff to be located quickly in an emergency situation.

BlueBean is partnering with PanGo and Cisco – leaders in the healthcare asset tracking and wireless system industries – to offer this seminar.

If you work in the healthcare industry you should not miss this important seminar.

BlueBean Free Seminar:

Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Time: 8:30 am EDT registration and continental breakfast; 9 am – noon seminar

Place: Ritz Charles; 12156 N. Meridian Street; Carmel, IN 46032(north Indianapolis)

To register, go to www.bluebeanrfid.com and click on the “Free RFID in Healthcare Seminar” link.

About BlueBean

BlueBean (www.bluebeanrfid.com) is a RFID consulting and systems integration company that focuses exclusively on RFID solutions, RFID compliance mandates, and simplifying the implementation of RFID technology. We guarantee our clients a solution that successfully meets their business needs based on our real world knowledge, extensive expertise, and certifications from the top RFID manufacturers. BlueBean provides a custom roadmap of the steps required to achieve your goals and offers services and resources to implement the solution. RFID services include design, hardware and software selection, installation, implementation, integration with existing systems, maintenance and support. We strive to make the client’s RFID deployment as simple and easy as possible. [end] 

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