Hospitals have thousands of assets that are constantly changing hands and need to be tracked. Deploying an asset tracking solution can help lower overhead costs by reducing the need to replace missing ...

You can’t manage what you don’t measure: that seems to be the mantra of every hospital executive, as electronic data systems increasingly help hospitals track data on quality measures, patient ...

Health-care RFID technology provider Radianse has teamed up with Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) to offer an RFID-based solution for hospital workflow. The two companies say their package ...

The CDC has launched a new electronic system that will enable hospitals to track antibiotic use and compare performance with other hospitals in efforts to curb growing rates of antibiotic drug ...

Two Belgian hospitals—St. Trudo and Jan Yperman—are employing radio frequency identification to monitor the locations of assets or patients, and to track the temperatures of items at their facilities.

Seventeen Philadelphia-area hospitals and imaging centers improved CT radiation dose tracking, control and policies through a one-year Partnership for Patient Care program, according to an ECRI ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Forty-eight thousand Americans die each year from infections contracted in hospitals. Now, researchers are tracking these deadly bugs from your home to the hospital and back ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a busy hospital in Boston, needed a way to more efficiently track the location of costly medical equipment — and to keep tabs on patients and its medical staff.

An international research team has developed a new genomic technique that can track the spread of multiple superbugs in a hospital simultaneously. In a proof-of-concept study, scientists at the ...

California hospitals in financial trouble will soon be able to apply for interest-free state loans, although key questions about the selection process aren't yet resolved. Legislators and hospital ...