Parco Wireless Completes UWB RFID at Washington Hospital Center

Parco Wireless Corporation announce that the company has completed the largest civilian ultra-wideband (UWB) RFID enabled location tracking system installation in the world at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. The system covers 2.5 million square feet at this 926-bed facility

About Parco Wireless:
Parco is the healthcare industry leader, providing reliable, scalable and accurate RFID-enabled resource and patient workflow management tools available to hospitals today. Parco’s state-of-the art indoor positioning systems incorporate an advanced form of non-interfering radio frequency technology as well as software management tools.

Washington Hospital Center has embraced the real time location technologies provided by Parco Wireless. Washington Hospital Center has first-hand experience in managing mass casualty and bio-terror events. The Hospital Center cared for critically injured casualties during the September 11 attack on the Pentagon and treated hundreds of patients during the subsequent anthrax exposures in October.

Over the past year, technicians installed standard structured networking cables at the hospital, which spans several eight-story buildings over its 18-acre campus to accommodate the several hundred RFID readers needed to track critical mobile medical equipment and patients. Once the system is fully operational by spring 2007, nurses, doctors, and support staff at the hospital will be able to locate within two feet the critical mobile medical equipment needed in the provision of everyday care as well as during mass casualty incident The data generated by the Parco locations tracking system is visible in Microsoft Azyxxi, the clinical information system developed and deployed at Washington Hospital Center.

Scott Cohen, CEO of Parco Wireless, said:

Recent advances in Parco's Real Time Location System (RTLS) technologies, including RFID radio frequency such as ultra-wideband, and software management tools now make indoor positioning systems worthwhile for all hospitals. Parco have created a system that is simply not available from other technology providers. The resultant capabilities of Parco Wireless RTLS technology are a solution suitable for everyday use as well as for expanded use in disaster settings. This is a model which other hospitals are now adopting….

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