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 ...

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 ...

At issue is a 2022 bulletin that prohibits HIPAA-covered entities from using technology that captures the IP address of people visiting public-facing websites. Healthcare organizations are pushing ...

Busy hospitals transport hundreds of patients daily through different areas of the facility. From the emergency department to surgery to patient rooms, staff members use a wide variety of equipment to ...

Deciding how your own internal processes are going to work once the RAC letters start rolling in is probably one of the most daunting tasks we all are grappling with at the moment. Many hospitals ...

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 ...

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 ...

UPDATE: Jan. 17, 2024: Seventeen hospital associations and 30 providers filed amicus briefs last week in support of the American Hospital Association's suit against the HHS' restrictions on website ...

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.