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Mobile networks and infrastructure have the potential to bring down healthcare costs. Wireless hospitals and remote patient monitoring, for example, are growing trends. Tracking medical equipment and hospital inventory, such as gurneys, are done with RFID tagging at a number of hospitals.


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