RadarFind, RTLS and Projects Revisited
Several years ago, while enrolled in a business strategy seminar, I had the opportunity to create a business plan with Marshea Fenderson, a project manager at IBM. (See post1 and post2) Marshea and I, along with an adviser, developed a business plan for a company that could use RFID—RTLS more specifically—to track Alzheimer’s patients. We found that there was a true market for this type of real-time location of patients and believed that there was a tremendous business opportunity. I’m happy to report that I have stumbled across a local company that does just that.
RadarFind uses active RFID tags with an RTLS component to provide real-time location of both patients—not specifically Alzheimer’s patients—and equipment to improve hospital operations. it goes without saying that losing patients or equipment is unacceptable for myriad self-evident reasons. I look forward to learning more about how RadarFind has put this powerful technology into action.
Years later, it is exciting to see that our foresight was on point.
Versus Technology, Inc. has been doing this for years. You might consider reading the Oatfield Estates success story here and looking to the upcoming issue of ADVANCE for Long-term Care to learn more about how RTLS supports residents, patients and staff.