From CBS Market Watch
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- U.S. health-care facilities may have the flashiest medical equipment around, but they're proving slow to adopt radio-frequency identification technology that can track patients and inventory and potentially cut rapidly rising costs.
Among its potential uses: Implanting RFID chips inside surgical instruments to ensure they're not left inside a sewn-up body, and affixing RFID labels onto surgery patients to confirm their identity and the exact procedure to be performed.
RFIDs also promise to aid in drug manufacturing by protecting against trafficking in counterfeit medicine. Yet few companies are investing in the technology, said Dan Mullen, president of AIM Global, a trade group representing 900 companies in automatic identification and mobile technology.
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