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At Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, VeriChip, a security and identification technology provider, applied radio-frequency identification to prevent infant abduction.
When parents try to remove the baby from the hospital nursery without permission, VeriChip’s “Hugs” baby protection system will sound an alarm. In addition, a warning will flash on the display at the nurse’s station on the 7th floor. Hospital staff will then respond quickly to the “pink code” alarm, and safety officials can stop abduction, protect the baby from harm, and safely return to the supervision of medical staff. According to a spokesperson for the hospital’s head office, Presbyterian Healthcare, if a parent already has two other children under the custody of social services, they will consider not allowing them to supervise the third child.
The “Hugs” system consists of tracking software and a loop device with a mini radio transmitter worn on the ankle, and is designed to prevent babies from being taken out of the healthcare facility without authorization.
Every baby born in Presbyterian Hospital wears a hugs device on the ankle or wrist to track the baby’s activities in the hospital. The exit of the hospital is also under electronic monitoring to prevent the baby from being taken out of the hospital without authorization.
In the past 22 years, 233 babies have been abducted in the United States, and half of the abduction incidents have occurred in medical institutions. The company’s RFID technology baby protection system is not only designed to prevent infant abduction, but also to prevent accidental situations that confuse infants. VeriChip’s infant protection system is currently used in approximately 900 US hospitals.
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