NYTimes: Hospitals looking for better data on Medical Devices

The New York Times has a great story on Medicare and Hospitals trying to find better data on medical devices. One of the interesting things about our RFID technology (and pretty much all RFID technology) is the vast amount of data we gather. By combining our data with other data sets that hospitals have, we are already helping them understand the cost vs efficacy considerations of the different devices they are using. This is helping individual physicians and whole departments ensure they are using the best and lowest cost devices available for them. With this philosophy, our customers are both increasing outcomes for their patients, and reducing their costs by millions of dollars a year. This is the effect of RFID in healthcare (it aint just a bar code replacement).