Improving Processes and Patient Flow in the Health Care Environment (Active RFID, RTLS & Sensor Networks 2008)

Tony Marsico is President and Chief Executive Officer of Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS). Mr. Marsico joined PCTS in 2004 upon PCTS' acquisition of Healthcare I.T., Inc. As co-founder and president of Healthcare I.T., Mr. Marsico established the company as the leading provider of automatic patient tracking and reporting in U.S. emergency departments. Under his leadership, the company established EDTracker as the #1 selling emergency department automatic tracking software solution in the U.S. and expanded the company's product offering to include perioperative, outpatient services and asset tracking solutions. He was appointed President and CEO of PCTS in 2005.

Mr. Marsico is a leading authority on the implementation of real time location system-enabled workflow automation systems in health care. He also has extensive experience in training and computer-based documentation.

Mr. Marsico has a Bachelors of Science degree in Physics and Math from Wofford College and a Masters of Technical and Scientific Communications from Miami University of Ohio. He regularly presents to the health care community on the role for intelligent workflow automation solutions to improve the efficiency and safety of health care delivery.

Patient Care Technology Systems is a leading provider of intelligent workflow automation solutions featuring the Amelior suite of automatic patient and asset tracking systems and charting solutions. Amelior solutions support the emergency department, surgical and enterprise level needs of health care facilities to better orchestrate patient flow and document care. As the leading provider of automatic patient and asset tracking software with over 3.5 million patient encounters tracked to date, PCTS works with all leading locating technologies to support the range of locating requirements among healthcare providers. These include systems that use radio frequency (RF) signals, infrared light and ultrasound.