August 3, 2011 - A unique joint tracking solution that gives hospitals complete situational awareness from the scene of a mass casualty incident through patient admittance and discharge could play a critical role in victim treatment and survivability in the event of a mass casualty event.

Salamander Technologies and Versus Technology, Inc., two of the nation's leading tracking and locating companies, have integrated their technologies to create a seamless data collection-and-transfer process that can gather patient information at the site of an incident and push it to clinicians prior to hospital arrival. This integration takes advantage of Salamander's electronic tagging and tracking capabilities that occur in a dynamic field environment, and Versus' real-time locating system (RTLS) expertise within the confines of a medical complex. Read more ...