MEDIA ADVISORY

WHO

ThingMagic, a Division of Trimble

WHAT

RFID is being adopted today by many healthcare facilities to improve their asset management, patient tracking and throughput, infection control and patient-centric services. UHF RFID in particular allows hospital staff and administrators to easily and cost–effectively measure a large number of parameters in healthcare settings because of its low cost and ease of deployment. As a result, hospitals and other healthcare facilities can implement innovative patient-centric applications that would otherwise not be economically feasible.

Because of the tremendous value RFID offers to patients and healthcare in general, the RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) are partnering to produce the first ever RFID & RTLS Pavilion at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition.

From February 21 - 24, HIMSS attendees will be able to see first-hand the Hospital Smart Room where they can experience how RFID & RTLS technologies are able to deliver real-time data from the patient’s room/bedside to clinicians and other hospital staff to improve quality of care and patient safety while reducing operating costs.

HOW

ThingMagic will be participating in the HIMSS RFID & RTLS Pavilion, joining other sponsors including AeroScout, Awarepoint, Capsule, Centrak, GE Healthcare, Hill-Rom, Intelligent InSites, Patient Safe, Ruckus Wireless, St. Croix Systems, Teletracking, Visonic Technologies, and Wavemark.

ThingMagic will be demonstrating how UHF RFID is currently being used in a wide variety of healthcare solutions including:

• The use of ThingMagic fixed RFID readers for loss prevention and asset tracking in facilities such as the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center.
• The use of ThingMagic fixed RFID readers in innovative patient-centric solutions like the system deployed by The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center - RFID Journal’s 2010 Most Innovative Use of RFID award winner.
• The integration of ThingMagic RFID reader modules into medical device and drug cabinets offered by Goods That Talk and the Intelliguard™ solution from MEPS Real-Time, Inc. who have developed an RFID-enabled critical-dose medication dispensing and delivery system.

WHERE

HIMSS 2011 is being held at the Orange County Convention Center, South Concourse, 9899 International Drive in Orlando, FL.

Please visit ThingMagic in Hall E, Booth #7381, kiosk #11.

If you would like to schedule a meeting with ThingMagic at HIMSS or receive additional information on the use of RFID in healthcare, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

About Trimble’s ThingMagic Division

Trimble’s ThingMagic Division is a leading provider of UHF RFID reader engines, development platforms and design services for a wide range of applications. ThingMagic develops products for demanding high-volume applications and provides consulting and design services to create solutions for challenging applications. ThingMagic's customers include some of the world's largest industrial automation firms, manufacturers, automotive companies, retailers, and consumer companies. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ThingMagic was founded in 2000 by a group of visionary PhD graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. ThingMagic is "The Engine in RFID™". For more information, visit: www.thingmagic.com.