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From Most Wired Online,
March, 2008

The Evidence-Based Management Breakthrough

RFID-based tools can paint a new picture of health care: transparent, associative and interactive.


By Manuel Lowenhaupt, M.D.

For the last half century, one of health care's quests has been to create an integrated continuum of patient care in which prevention and treatment milestones are seamlessly achieved. Using intelligent, interactive software applications that apply real-time location systems (RTLS), health care organizations can realize this vision. It's possible to accurately correlate time, location, identity and clinical context to take clinical effectiveness to the next level.

By applying special knowledge-engine software to consistent and accurate location data within a framework of clinical protocols, providers have access to a “big picture” of health care that optimizes clinical effectiveness and improves the patient experience. This application uses RTLS built on active radiofrequency identification (RFID) to track patients, staff and medical gear, providing a view into the health care enterprise that allows providers to make intelligent associations among people, places and things while it automatically triggers actions based on best practices. Health care thought leaders call this capability “evidence-based management” because it creates the necessary infrastructure to execute on the promises of evidence-based medicine.

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