Asset Tracking news from FierceMobileHealthcare
NewsPCTS acquisition helps Awarepoint with hospital-wide coverage
San Diego-based asset-tracking firm Awarepoint wants to spread its real-time location system (RTLS) enterprise-wide, and just took a big step in that direction by acquiring Charlotte, N.C.-based Read more...
UK hospital trials iPads on WLAN, but loves wireless asset tracking
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust in London has become the first pediatric hospital in the UK to adopt iPads for e-prescribing and medication management, and currently is running a Read more...
Army tests mobile EMR, patient tracking apps on iPhone, Android
The U.S. Army is testing EMR, medical supply-chain and patient-tracking applications on a variety of mobile devices for possible deployment in combat zones, a Pentagon publication reports. The Army's Read more...
Hospital calls on young iPad app developers to revamp IT
It sounded like just another quirky idea from some young software developers: Build an iPad app to give hospital-based physicians all the information they need at the bedside right on their portable Read more...
Atlanta hospital completes RFID rollout
St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta is the latest acute-care facility to deploy radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track and locate its high-value assets. The 410-bed hospital, which Read more...
NY med school improves operating room start times and throughput with RFID
SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, has vastly improved its surgical start rates and operating room patient throughput, thanks to an RFID asset-tracking system. CIO Terry Wagner and Mark Read more...
RFID saves NJ academic hospital $1 million on IV pumps
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ, an affiliate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has saved $1 million by not having to purchase new Read more...
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