RFID Tracking System Implemented in Canada

From DurhamRegion.com:

The Rouge Valley Health Care System is the first acute care hospital in Canada to implement a new automated patient tracking system, and the Ajax-Pickering hospital has made it common practice in the past month.

“The new tracking system will help us bring care and treatment to patients more quickly,” said Dr. Gary Mann, chief of emergency at Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering, in a press release.

The radio frequency identification system tracks patients, physicians and staff wearing sensor badges in an attempt to improve wait times and patient safety. The system shows how long patients have been waiting to be seen, as well as their location, on computer screens in the emergency department.

Ark. ambulance service suspends 2 EMS crew members who thought living woman was dead

From KFSM:

Officials say a woman lay in the yard of a west Little Rock home for more than three hours while ambulance crews, police and coroner’s office officials debated whether she was dead or alive.

She was eventually taken to a hospital Friday morning by the third ambulance crew called to the scene.

Officials of Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services say they’ve suspended the senior members of the first two ambulance crews that concluded 52-year-old Pamela Harper had died, though she was still alive. An emergency room doctor also pronounced the woman dead before she was eventually taken to the hospital after she took a breath as a deputy coroner and his bosses watched.