Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Pediatric hospital taps Patient Care Tech. for workflow automation

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Patient Care Technology Systems announced that Cook Children’s Medical Center has selected the company’s Amelior Tracker system to automatically track medical equipment throughout their Ft. Worth, Texas facility.

Amelior Tracker will integrate with the CenTrak Gen2IR active RFID tag to enable the 282-bed pediatric care facility to track mobile medical equipment and increase equipment utilization, decrease the requirement to rent additional units and have more consistent preventative maintenance for increased operating performance.


Cook Children’s will also integrate the Amelior Mobile program, a proprietary Web application for use with handheld communication devices that will allow their engineers to locate equipment in real-time, without wandering around various hospital departments or wings.

With the Amelior Track solution, Cook Children’s Medical Center can scale its implementations by the entities it wishes to track, such as medical equipment, patients, and staff; purposes, including temperature monitoring, asset management, patient flow, infection control; and by the scope of hospital workflow - acute care, inpatient floors, outpatient services, enterprise-wide. [end] 

The Basque National Health System has launched a neonatal security system designed to monitor and protect new-born infants using RFID technology.

When a pregnant woman is admitted to hospital, she is provided a tag with a unique identification which can be read in all the maternity zones. When the baby is born, an RFID tag specially designed for the new born is fitted to its ankle. The device monitors the infant 24 hours a day, detecting unauthorized movements, registering entries and exits to and from and enabling immediate location information.

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Intelligent InSites has incorporated Pentaho Corporation’s business analytics into its platform in an effort to automate real-time location systems (RTLS) data analysis and provide enhanced business intelligence tools for health care providers.

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Intelligent InSites Inc. announced a partnership with Singapore-based real-time location system (RTLS) provider Cadi Scientific to integrate Cadi’s RFID technology with the InSites RTLS software solution.

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Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (NMSC) has selected the Versus Advantages real-time locating system (RTLS) to better improve its patient care experience.

Averaging around 80 patients per day, the Northwest Michigan Surgery Center will use the Versus RTLS to relay patient status information to families, as well as to provide automated process flow management for NMSC clinical staff.

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Awarepoint announced that it will integrate its real-time location (RTLS) system for health care environments with Meditech’s electronic health record (EHR). The effort aims to improve throughput and patient safety in hospital emergency departments (ED).

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Centros Especializados de San Vicente Fundacion, Columbia has chosen Orange Business Services to integrate and deliver RFID-based technology and communications services at its new branch launched in October.

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