Dec 14, 2020Delivering seamless modern health care has its challenges, especially during a pandemic. Manual processes and a lack of digitization can hinder compliance, increase the misuse of medical devices and result in possible cross-contamination. These consequences have the potential to cripple even the most sophisticated organizations. Connected technologies can help health-care facilities to avoid such problems.
On Dec. 3, RFID Journal hosted the webinar "How to Implement Smarter Medical Applications with RFID & RTLS." This online event, sponsored by HID Global, explained how radio frequency identification (RFID) and real-time location system (RTLS) technologies can improve efficiencies, validate device monitoring and configuration, automate contact tracing and more, with RFID embedded in medical devices or deployed at a health-care practice.
HID's Richard Aufreiter
HID offers products to identify, verify and track assets. Its solutions, utilizing RFID and active low-energy Bluetooth, identify items and the individuals who use them, in order to ensure that they are connected and can communicate with each other. The company works to add digital capabilities to assembly-line objects, production robots, clothing, fire extinguishers, industrial laundry equipment, posters, life jackets and other objects. Its trusted-identity solutions can help users open doors, access digital networks, personalize badges, verify transactions, find information, track assets and more.
In the health-care field, such technologies can be particularly useful, as speaker Richard Aufreiter, HID's VP of product marketing, explained during the webinar. Aufreiter drives the firm's portfolio of identification technologies across multiple frequencies and applications. With vast expertise in encryption systems, public key infrastructure, biometry and mobile security, he has led product-management and engineering efforts in the IT industry for more than 20 years.
An archived recording of the presentation is now available to view on demand, and a PDF of the slides used has been created. The presenter owns the copyright to these materials, which are being offered for viewers' personal reference and should not be reused without permission. Please note that you must be a Registered or Premium Member of RFID Journal, as you will be prompted to enter your e-mail address and password before viewing the recording. (Registration is free.)
The next RFID Journal event will be the "Internet of Things 2021" virtual event, which will be held on Feb. 23. For more information regarding this and other upcoming webinars, virtual events and face-to-face evens, including RFID Journal LIVE! 2021, visit RFID Journal's events page.
