A pioneer in real-time location for hospital asset tracking, patient flow and clinical effectiveness applications, Radianse, announces its receivers will plug-and-play on hospital's existing Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz) networks. Without sacrificing location accuracy, this will simplify and speed installation, guaranteed based on the company's continued use of its patented location software, active-RFID and the 433 MHz UHF band to calculate location.

Healthcare's tracking pioneer Radianse, Inc., already ahead of the curve in clinical relevancy and location accuracy, is poised to take leadership in ease and speed of installation for real-time location systems (RTLS).

New Radianse receivers will plug-and-play on hospitals' existing Wi-Fi (2.4GHz) networks for a faster, simpler RTLS installation free of dust or other disruption to care.

Radianse will continue to use its patented algorithms, active-RFID and the 433 MHz UHF band to calculate location, to assure hospitals of interference-free operation, accurate room-level precision and support for patient tracking, throughput and clinical effectiveness applications.

Radianse chief strategy officer, Paul Tessier, said: "We are not a Wi-Fi location company". "Rather, this offers the best of both worlds to the hospital that simply wants to leverage an investment in Wi-Fi. We use the existing WiFi infrastructure for what it was intended - to transmit data - and the Radianse location technology for accuracy and precision across both hospital asset tracking and patient tracking and other clinically-relevant applications. Our clients need to know that a patient is in triage, not just in the ED; and that a device is clean and ready, not just that it's in the unit."

Enabling greater flexibility in the placement and number of receivers required to achieve room-level location precision, further reducing installation cost, Radianse also announced enhancements to its location software.

Priced for ubiquitous deployment, the new Wi-Fi receiver, software updates and the recent news of an even smaller, lighter and disposable Radianse patient active-RFID tag, are part of the Radianse vision to enable evidence-based management - to help hospitals document and drive quality and patient-safety processes, improve clinical effectiveness and create performance dashboards for interventional management.

Documented at 100 percent in a double-blind, peer-reviewed clinical study, Radianse system accuracy, is proven daily in dozens of U.S. hospitals where Radianse Reveal tracks and measures interactions among patients, staff and equipment.