How RFID Can Help Healthcare Maintain an Effective Working Environment

Forty hours is a lot of time — for most of us, it’s a full working week. Nurses in healthcare settings, however, spend this amount of time searching for medical equipment each month, according to a NursingTimes survey. 1 What’s more, in 16 percent of cases, respondents said that they had given up the search after failing to find a piece of equipment. With increasing demands on the sector for a more streamlined approach to healthcare, this article explores how radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging can be used to locate assets that healthcare workers need to do their jobs more effectively.