RFID/RTLS

Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, of Kontakt.io on workplace violence
By Bill Siwicki 11:34 am June 25, 2024
Artificial intelligence tools, combined with Internet of Things and RTLS, can help hospitals and health systems protect their staff members while optimizing workflows. This is the future of healthcare operations, says one chief nursing officer.
This "What If" mural at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
By Bill Siwicki 11:33 am May 06, 2024
The two-million-square-foot Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital has been built from the ground up with leading-edge technology, everything from artificial intelligence to RTLS to robotics.
HIMSS24 exhibit hall
By Bill Siwicki 04:39 pm March 14, 2024
A selection of the announcements made in the exhibit hall this week – from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, CenTrak, DT Research, Innovaccer, MDClone and MedeAnalytics.
By Bill Siwicki 05:13 pm November 03, 2023
A broad RTLS deployment, new augmented intelligence systems and 75-inch footwall monitors to enhance patient experience are just some of the innovations the New Jersey hospital hopes will satisfy patients, providers and staff.
St. Francis Interquest and RTLS
By Bill Siwicki 10:47 am October 20, 2023
Mountain Region CommonSpirit Health's CMIO outlines novel ways RTLS is being used in finding everything from staff and patients to equipment and patients' personal items – and how it all adds up to the quadruple aim.
Dr. Valerie McKinnis of Mountain Region CommonSpirit Health on RTLS
By Bill Siwicki 10:08 am October 19, 2023
Yes, RTLS. Mountain Region CommonSpirit Health's CMIO offers a deep dive into some novel uses of the tracking technology, showing how it can fulfill its long-touted promise of improving care quality, patient and provider experience and the bottom line.
Ron Erickson of Know Labs on noninvasive diagnostics
By Bill Siwicki 10:49 am August 31, 2023
Noninvasive diagnostics are the life's work of Ron Erickson, founder of Know Labs. He explains radio frequency technology and how it could change the course of diabetes care.
By Bill Siwicki 10:09 am December 09, 2022
These advanced technologies will do more to help provider organizations with workflow optimization, staff shortages and the patient experience in the year ahead, one expert predicts.
A doctor scrolling through their tablet computer
By Adam Ang 02:34 am October 31, 2022
It plans to use more of such technology in operating theatres, wards and at the emergency department.
A clinician wearing scrubs is looking at a patient record from a computer screen
By Adam Ang 02:10 am October 21, 2022
The system has higher sensitivity in identifying close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases compared to a conventional tracing method.