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N.C. Hospital Looks to RadarFind to Improve Asset Visibility Southeastern Regional Medical Center plans to deploy the vendor's active RFID system, which it hopes will reduce spending and help staff find equipment faster.

RF Code Announces Platform for Tracking IT Assets The RF Code IT system uses 433 MHz active RFID to monitor the locations of rack-mounted servers, as well as laptops, desktop PCs and other devices.

Uruguay's RFID-Based Beef-Tracking Program Tags 2 Million The nation, one of the world's leading beef exporters, hopes to have all 12 million of its cattle tagged by 2012, though the initiative faces some challenges.

Providence Centralia Uses RTLS to Track Electronic Charts The hospital is employing a Wi-Fi-based system so it can locate table PCs containing the electronic health records of individual patients.

Italian Hospital Uses RFID to Document Patient Location, Treatment Thanks to active RFID tags, families and staff members at Treviglio-Caravaggio can determine patients' exact locations. Employees can also use the system to identify delays and document services received.

Mercy Medical Center Preps RFID-Enabled Gift Shop In an effort to streamline inventory management, purchases, theft reduction and sales promotions, volunteers working at the store will apply EPC Gen 2 tags to items for sale, and read them using RFID-enabled terminals.

RFID Takes Root in Bangladesh Early adopters include Apollo Hospitals Dhaka and the Bangladesh Army.

Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management The supermarket operator is planning to test whether placing RFID tags on customers' prescription orders will make locating and ringing up the orders faster and more accurate.

Carolinas Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment The hospital has added 26 RFID-enabled medical supply cabinets to its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, helping it cut inventory costs and improve operations.

Medical Center Set to Grow With RFID After a decade of seeking automated tracking for medical devices, Southern Ohio Medical Center has deployed a Radianse system to locate its assets. The hospital hopes to expand the system to monitoring patients.