Industry News
RTLS to Increase Patient Visibility Within Tallahassee Memorial's Surgical SuiteThe Florida hospital is expanding its existing AeroScout Wi-Fi-based RFID system to track patients entering and leaving its ORs, and to display data about each patient's status on a reader board. |
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Is "RFID-Ready"When the renowned cancer center deployed an asset-tracking system, it took an enterprise approach, paving the way for other applications. |
Children's Hospital Colorado to Expand Wireless Sensor SystemThe hospital reports that TempSys' CheckPoint solution has already paid for itself "a couple of times over," by reducing the amount of labor required to track temperatures within blood coolers and other units. |
A New Approach to Pharmaceutical E-PedigreesEPCIS can support chain-of-custody verification—without a cumbersome data burden. |
RFID: The Key to Safer, Fresher ProduceAn FDA mandate coupled with the proven benefits of temperature monitoring could drive adoption in a sector that's been slow to embrace the technology. |
Czech Oncology Center Uses Wi-Fi RTLS to Locate People, EquipmentThe system has enabled the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute to reduce the number of items lost, and is improving safety by allowing patients to transmit requests for help to employees assigned to their ward. |
RFID Journal LIVE! LatAm 2011 ReportRFID Journal's second annual event for Latin America showcased leading end users presenting powerful educational case studies. View the presentations from the event. |
Medicarte Uses RFID and Biometrics to Reduce CounterfeitingPassive HF tags identify expensive drugs dispensed to customers, ensuring that the empty packaging can not be reused by sellers of bogus pharmaceuticals. |
The Year That Was2011 saw some economic ups and downs, but many companies turned to RFID to track the locations of their products and assets—and to monitor their conditions. |
RFID: A Strong Technology in a Weak EconomyCan radio frequency identification give businesses a fighting chance against hard times? A growing number of companies are convinced that it does. |
