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WakeMed & RadarFind Announce R&D Partnership

By RadarFind | April 9, 2008

WakeMed Cary HospitalWakeMed Health & Hospitals, a leading health care system in North Carolina’s Triangle has announced a partnership with RadarFind, a health care technology company offering a unique, patented Real Time Location System (RTLS) that uses a platform technology for tracking medical equipment and patients.  WakeMed Cary Hospital will be implementing the RadarFind system while also serving as a development partner and research facility for RadarFind engineers to further advance the company’s industry leading technology platform. The partnership is in keeping with WakeMed Health & Hospital’s vision of providing both high quality patient care and health care technological leadership. 

                                                                                                                                               “WakeMed is committed to fostering technology which will continue to raise the standard of excellence for health care both within our system and beyond. Initially, RadarFind will implement its medical equipment tracking technology at WakeMed Cary Hospital. We expect this implementation to positively impact patient care by enabling staff to locate needed equipment expeditiously.  We are also pleased to be serving as a research environment for continued enhancements to this tracking system. Our hospital installation will play a key role in testing and improving asset and patient tracking in hospitals across the nation,” said Denton Arledge, Vice President and CIO of WakeMed.


In addition to the technological focus of the partnership, WakeMed will be using the RadarFind RTLS to track their inventory of medical equipment, enhance patient care by efficiently locating medical equipment, reduce costs on equipment purchases and maintenance, and develop best practices for infection control.                                                                                                                                 
                                                
More information at http://www.radarfind.com/news/wakemedcary.pdf

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