3M has won its first contract with the Mayo Clinic to provide radio-frequency identification devices, or RFID, that will track patients' endoscopy tissue samples. The contract calls for 3M to provide RFID tracking tags and scanners for the 41 operating rooms where 20,000 endoscopy and colon procedures were performed last year. A five-month pilot program restricted the 3M equipment to five operating rooms and one laboratory.
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