Hospital to Track Patients By Microchip
TECHNOLOGY which evolved from soviet spy listening devices could be used to track patients at Coventry's new super-hospital. High-tech equipment has been fitted all over University Hospital, at Walsgrave, to enable the use of devices normally used to track goods and equipment. The so-called RFID chips - radio frequency identity chips - would be inserted into the plastic wristband name tags that in-patients usually wear. And they could even be linked to patients' medical records.