A team of engineers and clinicians at The Johns Ho..

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A team of engineers and clinicians at The Johns Hopkins Hospital developed the repurposed badges to study their value in tracking ambulation, or mobility, among inpatients who had undergone cardiac surgery.
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Device that tracks location of nurses re-purposed to record patient mobility -- ScienceDaily

By re-purposing badges originally designed to locate nurses and other hospital staff, scientists say they can precisely monitor how patients in the hospital are walking outside of their rooms, a well-known indicator and contributor to recovery after