Scottish Hospital Expanding Hybrid Active and Passive RFID System

Scotland's National Health Service (NHS) Forth Valley Hospital is expanding a hybrid RFID system, which enables its main Forth Valley Royal facility to manage its medical devices, to two of its other community hospitals. The solution already includes 14,000 passive RFID tags on assets, along with 4,000 active RFID tags on the highest-valued of those items. Those assets with active tags attached can be tracked in real time as they move around the facility, while the passive tags on all assets items them to be located via mobile readers.