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Brigham and Women's Hospital Tests NFC RFID for Patient Bedsides - RFID Journal - 0 views

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  • Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is testing a Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID system it developed that enables health-care staff members to manage the administration of medication at a patient's bedside.
  • consists of a Google Nexus 7 tablet and a software app that interprets RFID tag data regarding patients and the medications they receive. The system works with passive NFC RFID tags attached to medications, to patients' wristbands and to staff members' ID badges, thereby enabling a user to read the tags and link the patient, caretaker and medication in the app
  • Since 2005, BWH has managed its medication administration data via bar codes
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  • However, Landman notes, the time spent scanning bar codes, as well as the difficulty in ensuring a strong Bluetooth connection, can often make data collection during these visits time-consuming. The bar codes themselves could be difficult to scan as well—in many cases, a bar code is printed on a crinkled wrapper that can be difficult to scan. What's more, he says, pushing the workstation-on-wheels from one room to another is cumbersome.
  • Landman's team built a prototype system, using a Nexus 7 tablet, which comes with a built-in NFC RFID reader. They loaded the tablet with the app, and then attached NFC RFID tags to some pharmaceuticals, staff badges and patient wristbands.
  • Nicole Stevens on 22 Mar 13
     
    This program insures the safety and well keeping of the patients. I know it's not the latest in-room safe technology. But having just been in a hospital and having a dreadful experience I can honestly say that this technology would have helped.  During my hospital stay I was lost, mistaken for a man, not given an IV, and almost given the wrong prescription. Now I know it was 3 am, but if this program would have been installed I don't think I would have the same story to tell. The fact that the software tracks both the patients and the staff is what I find amazing. That was the biggest problem with my visit. No-one knew who was supposed to take care of me. This would have changed all of that.
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Networking Reimagined with SDN and NFV - 0 views

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The way that networking is being done about to change. There a shift from hardware full virtualization of systems. Antonelle Corno senior manager for marketing at Cisco explains what it means professionals and specific prescriptions skills development alo

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  • Cisco, a premier and dominate networking hardware company, is preparing to move into a world where a "shift away from physical devices – hardware – to software that virtualizes device functions and supports digital innovation" is now in full swing.
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      kingleo7 on 18 May 17
       
      The way that networking is being done is about to change. There is a shift from hardware networking to full virtualization of networking systems. Antonelle Corno, senior manager for marketing at Cisco explains what it means for networking professionals and specific prescriptions for skills development along these lines.
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