The company said it would sell the devices, infrastructure and systems needed for full-scale tracking. That includes WiFi-enabled RFID tags to track equipment, devices and patients. It would enable, for example, a hospital staff to track mobile assets, such as blood pressure monitoring devices, EKG machines, gurneys, wheelchairs and laptops, from a web browser.
It would also alert healthcare staff if at-risk patients have wandered or been moved from their room, AT&T said. Hospital workers could also use the data to manage mobile asset inventory across multiple sites.
Healthcare organizations can now turn for the first time to a network services company to meet all of their RFID needs for products and services, said AT&T’s VP of business marketing John Regan, in a statement.
