GE and Cisco integrate tracking capabilities

Keith Moore | April 26, 2011 | Health Exec | Digital Transformation

GE Healthcare Performance Solutions and Cisco have agreed to integrate GE’s AgileTrac platform with Cisco’s Unified Wireless Network and Context-Aware Software to allow hospitals to track patients, staff and equipment.

The collaboration between Waukesha, Wis.-based GE and Cisco,based in San Jose, Calif., brings together location information about wi-fi clients, tags and wired devices, with proprietary real-time location system technologies (RTLS), regardless of the network provider.

Previously, hospitals were forced to operate two separate tracking systems for wi-fi and proprietary RTLS technologies. Organizations can now achieve a more complete, consolidated view of assets throughout their existing structure, according to GE.

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