Honestly depends on how tight of a ship a hospital is run. I've seen plenty of Hospital systems that have their own asset tags so they can manage preventative m

Honestly depends on how tight of a ship a hospital is run. I've seen plenty of Hospital systems that have their own asset tags so they can manage preventative maintenance routines and separate tags for finding the damn things. Mostly because doing that allows them to build a paper trail. I've also seen a couple hospital systems trade some very common equipment like infusion pumps though I'm not privy to the finer details of that. Clinics get a little dicey, since they often do not have the same resources at their disposal that hospitals do, but you are unlikely to find anything much more advanced than an ECG in there. The problems are pretty much getting the device to cooperate with the EHR (which is hard enough already) and attaching that information consistently to every patient (even John Does that paramedics drag in). And between those two, I can't really see equipment realistically being attached to every patient in a way that's consistent enough for a court to use as evidence. There's way too much room for nurses to just screw up between all of their different responsibilities.