The hospital where I work uses the chips for maternity wards. The fear of mixup or abduction is very real, and liability is astronomical if something bad happens. There really are sickos out there who try to infiltrate maternity wards to swipe a kid.
In one case, there was a hospital-wide security alert when the system detected what looked like a baby leaving the unit, and heading towards the dumpsters. It turned out the mother did not report the baby's security anklet was loose, and just put it on her food tray, which was then taken away after lunch. The anklet was covered by something, so nobody noticed it until the system detected it leaving the premises.
While everybody had a laugh about it after things cooled down, it was taken as seriously as firefights outside the ER. We've had those, too.
This is a large Detroit hospital system, so just about any emergency that can be imagined has already happened at least once.
I’m right with you.
I’m saying these so-called privacy advocates protesting the RFIDs are full of crap.
LOL
Up here a ‘wandering’ chip will lock all the ward doors, sound an alarm and all kinds of interesting things happen. Sensors in all hallways, doors and windows.
No mixed up babys of late - so it’s all good.
I know of a ‘scrapbooking’ grandma who (dispite being told not to) clipped baby’s anklet (for all important memory book). She had that, the little hat, some flowers, heading out to load the car...made it to the elevator. Many, many alarms went off; doors secured; security on high alert, local police alerted and in transit...and she still doesn’t ‘get’ that she caused a problem. This was a few years back...but now I think she must just be a WND reader :)