RFID in Hospitals and Clinics Makes Your Visit Faster

Waiting in the reception room of a medical clinic can feel like one of the most wasted periods of the day. But now, the wait promises to shorten using passive UHF RFID, voice capture, and biometrics.

The envisioned scenario for patients at clinic and hospital admissions is to issue outpatients passive RFID-tagged wristbands (cards or badges).

Without human intervention, these tags can be scanned by ceiling or gate readers as patients enter the consultation/treatment area of a medical facility. If the patient arrives in an unusual position, the scan can be made without disturbing the patient because line-of-sight is not necessary.

Therefore, RFID in hospitals and clinics can provide fast identification under almost any condition.

Along with identification, some systems also will assign to patients appropriate examination rooms according to previous needs (heart testing equipment, ergonomics, etc.), practitioner assignments, and openings.

Since patients often go from place to place in an integrated medical facility,RFID tags will enable staff to know where each person is in real-time so all parties stay on schedule and patients receive attention when needed.