The Mission of the Intelligent Hospital pavilion is to educate the healthcare market, in the form of a demonstration, about how various wireless, auto-ID, RFID & RTLS, and sensor technologies can be deployed in a patient care environment to improve clinical workflow, increase patient safety, and improve access to real time, information flow via mobile devices.The educational demonstrations at HIMSS 2012 will deliver a number of compelling use cases across collaborating vendors and will highlight how multiple technologies can interoperate seamlessly and co-exist to improve the overall patient care environment.

This Pavilion is all about delivering an educational message to the end user community and raising the level of awareness of the healthcare, nursing home and assisted living industries about the use of these technologies and their many applications. With the growing use of RFID and RTLS technologies in healthcare it became apparent to The RFID in Healthcare Consortium that it needed to bring all of these technologies together under one Pavilion for mutual benefit at HIMSS 2011.

To help raise the level of awareness of these technologies to the healthcare industry the RFID in Healthcare Consortium is collaborating with HIMSS to integrate selected RFID & RTLS vendors into this new Pavilion.

Unlike other Pavilions at HIMSS, this Pavilion is “By Invitation Only” and is focused on delivering a Unified educational message from its sponsors to end users. Corporate sponsors should use this Pavilion to get healthcare professionals interested in their technology/solution and thereby raising their interest level. Then have these interested professionals come and visit your larger Booth at HIMSS.

The Pavilion will bring together not only RFID and RTLS technology firms and their many use cases but also new and complementary technologies such as NFC, bar coding, software, sensors, and wireless technology firms all at ONE easy, accessible location. Situated adjacent to the large, well trafficked HIMSS Interoperability Pavilion, attending healthcare professionals and clinicians will see a number of options and scenarios.

In addition, this Pavilion will serve as home for those technology firms who will be attending HIMSS for the first time and many new start up firms showing their technology for the first time in our “Innovation Corner”. 

Facts of our pavilion at HIMSS 2011:

• Overwhelmingly successful
• 15 Paid Sponsors
• Over 4,000 visitors
• 3,400 Educational Handbooks distributed
• Positive feedback from exhibitors and attendees
• 3,500 square feet for 2011 (over 10,000 square feet planned for 2012)