RFID в медицинских приборах

Виктор Годинез (VICTOR GODINEZ ) из газеты The Dallas Morning News пишет:
Хотя RFID еще не стала жизненно-важной технологией, она уже облегчает жизнь медицинскому персоналу. На фото мед. брат Ричард Сандерс (Richard Sanders) среди помеченных RFID медицинских приборов внутри операционной комнаты Сердечной Клиники в Бэйлор Плано (Heart Hospital Baylor Plano).
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The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, which opened earlier this year, is one of about a dozen hospitals around the country and the first in Dallas-Fort Worth that's implemented a radio frequency identification network.

The system essentially automates the tracking and cataloging of almost all of the hospital's most expensive equipment. Experts say the system improves patient care, streamlines inventory, makes it easier to handle recalls and cuts costs.

"The staff actually has embraced this technology and has been very satisfied with its performance since it has been installed, and that's been really exciting to me to see," said Mark Valentine, president of the Heart Hospital.

John Gavras, president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, recently took a tour of the facility to check out the technology and came away impressed.

"Hospitals are going to have to adopt this. It's not going to be an option," he said. "I see it happening within the next two to three years, easily."

The Heart Hospital is brimming with technology that patients can interact with, such as flat-screen televisions and Internet access in every room.