• “A newborn girl was reunited with her mother on Sunday at a Lubbock, Texas, hospital after police arrested a woman in connection with her kidnapping. The infant had been wearing a security bracelet -- the kind placed on all newborns -- when she was abducted, but the bracelet was removed”

Source: “Alleged baby-snatcher arrested” CNN (March 12, 2007)

• An Oklahoma couple is reported to have sued their city hospital for USD 56 million after their baby was abducted.

Source:  “Cradle robbers: a study of the infant abductor” The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Sep 1995

• “Hospitals in the US are unable to locate 15-20 percent of their assets; as a result, such assets have to be written-off or assumed to be absent.”

Source: “Wireless Opportunities in Healthcare “ Kalorama Information/MarketResearch.com (Jan 2007)

• “In 2003, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami reported that it could not account for $4 million worth of equipment”

Source: “Patient Safety Applications of Barcodes and RFID” Zebra Technologies (2005)