Potential Benefits:
Continuously track each patient's location
Real time location tracking of doctors and nurses in the hospital
Real time location tracking of expensive and critical instruments and equipment
Restrict access to drugs, pediatrics, and other high-threat areas to authorized staff
Monitor and track unauthorized persons who are loitering around high-threat areas
Facilitate triage processes by restricting access to authorized staff and "approved" patients during medical emergencies, epidemics, terrorist threats, and other times when demands could threaten the hospital's ability to effectively deliver services
Use the patient's RFID tag to access patient information for review and update through a hand-held computer