Hand-held RFID Readers

Siemens Business Services has selected ACG Identification Technologies' RF PC Hand-held Reader for its project with the Jacobi Medical Center in New York. At the end of 2004, after a successful pilot test, Jacobi Medical Center, the largest public hospital in the Bronx with more than 800 beds, began fitting all patients with RFID enabled wristbands upon admission. The wristbands are embedded with an RFID integrated circuit containing the medical history and unique number for each patient, allowing the hospital staff to identify patients almost instantly, and get online access to a database secured by a PKI infrastructure. Source: Frontline