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Keeping Track to Stay on Track

Bar code and radiofrequency technologies can help manage staff, surgeries and supply budgets.

Lou Sheffler, MPS

If grocery stores, overnight couriers and car rental chains are using automated tracking systems to speed their businesses along, then why are we still relying on paper charts and whiteboards to oversee and coordinate our patient care? Keeping electronic tabs on your patients, personnel and inventory can immediately answer the questions you need answered countless times a day.

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