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D.C. area hospitals consider RFID solution for tracking patients post-disaster

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

According to a report on nextgov.com, the National Naval Medical Center, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and the Suburban Hospital in Washington D.C. are currently considering implementing an RFID system for tracking and recovering patients in the event of a disaster.

The National Library of Medicine, which recently filed a Sources Sought Notice arguing for the implementation of an emergency RFID system in the three hospitals, is responsible for planning the system and procuring the RFID hardware.

In the notice, the NLM stated that the prospective RFID and Real-Time Location System developed for the hospitals should include a Web-based, real-time patient-tracking application to monitor the disaster zone for quick assessment of mass casualties with a 95% accuracy rate.

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