If a group of healthcare IT professionals said we should stop questioning whether wireless sensors and tracking systems actually work, would it be enough to get the industry concentrating on deploying the most effective systems for yielding results?

In a piece written for Healthcare Technology Online, Ekahau’s EVP John C. Shoemaker references exactly such a scenario, which unfurled at a recent RFID/Wireless industry conference. “Finally,” he writes, “the wars are over and we can concentrate on deploying the most effective systems that deliver a host of benefits that can be obtained in ways unreachable before now.”

Not surprisingly, he seizes on the chance to plug Wi-Fi RTLS--Ekahau's flagship offering--but he makes a fair point when he says the utilization of both RFID and RTLS has exploded in numerous applications. Clearly, healthcare gets RTLS as a straight forward technology capable of delivering both cost reductions and operational efficiencies. The only real issue that remains, as Shoemaker points out, is who can implement it properly and with what type of RF.