Evan Bontemps is the President and CEO of Exavera Technologies Incorporated

How will RFID overcome the barriers that have prevented the adoption of barcodes and electronic medical records?

The healthcare IT market is looking to upgrade their existing paper-based paradigm to the electronic medical record. To cross the technology chasm, the IT departments must include wireless technologies into their network infrastructure. The earliest wireless technology adoption was optical scanning bar code solutions. The intent of bar code was to positively identify the patients through their bar code bracelets and match them with the proper bar code labeled medication to reduce preventable medical errors.