HEALTHCARE ASIA | 20 Mar 2025 Khoo Teck Puat Hospital’s (KTPH) real-time location system (RTLS) makes it easier to track medical equipment, helping nurses and staff save 20,000 work hours a year by cutting the time spent searching for them. It also allows the state-owned Singapore hospital to seamlessly transfer patients between departments, Alvin Kuo, assistant director of…
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Khoo Teck Puat Hospital adds Passive RFID technology to their SmartSense RTLS to track Medical Equipment, saving 20,000 Work Hours!
LIANHE ZAOBAO| 27 Feb 2025 We spent more than two years planning and testing before successfully introducing the new system. The tags used are very thin and can be attached to different equipment, with each tag costing less than $1. We can use them to track almost all equipment in the hospital. Khoo Teck Puat…
Continuous Vital Signs Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients
As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, confirmed cases in Singapore will grow over the next few months, thus increasing the number of isolated patients that require close monitoring. This will result in higher demand for clinical resources. Technologies for automating vitals signs taking will help to ensure that patients are effectively monitored, keeping…
