Hospital Launches RFID-Enabled Print-on-Demand Patient Bracelet

A hospital in Switzerland is deploying a UHF RFID-enabled patient wristband for the past several months, a hospital in Switzerland is deploying the technology to identify patients and view their movements through its surgical area.

The system consists of an RFID-enabled wristband that was developed and is being released commercially by SATO. The bracelet can be printed and encoded onsite as a patient is admitted, the company reports, and it can then track that individual's location via a built-in RFID tag.

SATO has declined to name the Swiss hospital, which it says was the first adopter during the early phase of the deployment.