RFIDNews | Canadian hospital relies on Ekahau for patient and staff safety

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Ekahau announced that the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, in Eastern Ontario, Canada, is utilizing its real-time locating system to improve patient and staff safety.

The Ekahau solution includes Ekahau T301BD pager tags, which are worn by hospital staff to pinpoint location and enable faster response times when in need of immediate assistance.

The T301BD Wi-Fi pager tags include a dedicated button than can be pressed in the event of an emergency, to alert staff of the situation and where it is happening.

The Ekahau solution leverages the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre existing WiFi networking and has more than 300 tags in use by its staff.

VA Pittsburgh deploys SmartSponge to prevent medical mistakes

ClearCount Medical Solutions announced that the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System will help prevent retained surgical sponge incidents with the use of its SmartSponge System.

The FDA-cleared, SmartSponge System is part of ClearCount’s RFID-based platforms that enables organizations to both count and locate surgical sponges. The VA Pittsburgh hospital has implemented SmartSponge Systems into its full suite of operating rooms to improve efficiency and provide a safety net for human error.

Hospital speeds response time with Ekahau

A St. Jerome, Canadian hospital is utilizing Ekahau’s real-time location system to improve patient and staff safety in emergency situations.

Working together with system integrator Bell Canada, Ekahau delivered its T301BD pager tags, which operate on the hospitals existing Wi-Fi network.

Apollo Hospital Chennai taps RFID for enhanced patient workflow

The Apollo Hospital Chennai will provide each patient with an Ekahau T301B badge tag that will track their movement within the 30,000 square foot hospital, as well as their current location and time spent there.

Versus tapped for hospital expansion

Versus announced that Avera McKennann University Hospital is expanding its real-time locating system to the hospitals new surgery center, scheduled to open July 2010.

Utilizing the Versus Advantages Clinic solution will enable Avera more efficient patient flow and communication to family members regarding patient status throughout the facility’s 28 private patient rooms and eight surgical suites.

ClearCount Medical Solutions obtains new financing

ClearCount Medical Solutions, a Pittsburgh-based provider of patient safety products for the operating room, has closed its $5 million series B financing round.

The company intends to use the funds to further research and development of its RFID-based solutions for operating rooms. ClearCount has already developed the first FDA-cleared sponge counting and detection solution.

Hospital taps DigitalPersona for security solution

DigitalPersona has announced it has been selected by Memorial Hospital of Union County in Ohio for a biometric solution to help it meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for securing electronic forms of patient records.

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Canadian hospital relies on Ekahau for patient and staff safety