The Shannon Medical Center, San Angelo, Texas, faced several challenges, not least of which were the new HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations, which require hospitals to better protect access to physical and electronic records.
"Part of our customer base are doctors," says Gary Voss, facilities safety director at the Shannon Medical Center. "A lot of them don't wear name tags. We could hand out proximity cards to everybody or we could look at a different route."