Survey: RFID Use in Hospitals to Rise Despite Obstacles

"Uncoordinated efforts between hospitals, vendors, shippers and suppliers are keeping RFID out of hospitals, concludes a new report by Spyglass Consulting Group. Nonetheless, a few applications are poised to become mainstream. Ten percent of HCOs (health care organizations) in the survey use RFID to track expensive mobile equipment. However, 45 percent of those interviewed expected to have such systems in place by the end of next year." Source: eweek.com