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3M to provide Mayo Clinic with RFID devices
E-Health Trend Watch, February 2, 2007
St. Paul, MN-based technology firm 3M has won a contract to provide Mayo Clinic of Rochester, MN, with radio-frequency identification devices (RFID), according to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The clinic will use the devices to track patients' endoscopy tissue samples. The company will provide RFID tags and scanners for 41 operating rooms.
The clinic hopes the technology will help it reduce paperwork and data-coding errors and allow nurses to spend more time with patients. This will be the first time that the company has used this technology in a hospital setting.
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