To deploy such applications, the requirements are:
- Positive identification of persons and things
- Real-time Location Identification
- Time-stamp of “events”
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology enables a variety of context-sensitive applications such as:
Automated Billing & Record Keeping
Automated Patient Safety Monitoring
Automated Medication Safety and & Documentation
Automated Medical Device Control & Asset Tracking
Real-time Inventory Management of critical items
Automated Hospital Administration, Access Control & Security Management.
The range of possibilities are mind-boggling, each with it's level of sophistication, technological complexity and cost-benefit ratios.
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