Tuesday, 24 March 2009

RFID tag system streamlines St Olav's Hospital's garment and laundry operation

The use of 'intelligent' RFID closets and special RFID garment tags enables automatic tracking and efficient management of over 100,000 garments. It has removed the need for bulky clothes hangars and paper forms and has resulted in large savings in space used and costs of the operation.

IT project strangulation in government

Government IT projects are notorious for both their complexity and for having a high failure rate. Randy Bablitz of CareWay Informatics argues that the complexity of government organisations themselves and the resulting layers of bureaucracy can be the major causes of failure, and that this is unlikely ever to change.