Tweet The Issue: How do you make the waiting room experience more palatable for chemotherapy patients waiting for treatment? With this question in mind, Administrators at the Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto approached Bykart Software to help develop a solution that would allow them to track patient movement within the Centre and [...]

Tweet Identive Group, Inc., a provider of products and services for  RFID industries,  announced new radio frequency identification (RFID) labels for the medical industry that are specially designed to withstand the radiation processes commonly used to sterilize medical devices, equipment and supplies. Unlike standard RFID products that lose their memory content when exposed to radiation, Identive’s new [...]

Tweet ODIN, a RFID provider in solutions for healthcare and critical asset tracking, has announced the launch of EasyID – an asset inspection solution combining RFID-enabled iPads with a web-based platform for reporting and analytics. EasyID identifies assets using RFID and enables the user to add and manage inspection histories for the asset. Data is [...]

Tweet The RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) and Intelligent Hospital.org – pioneering organizations in advanced technology initiatives for improved patient care and healthcare facility management – are now accepting nominations for the first annual Intelligent Hospital Awards. “The objective of the Intelligent Hospital Awards is to highlight the changing healthcare patient environment and recognize those [...]

Tweet Health Robotics announced an upgrade to its automated labeling and scanning systems. They have now upgraded to a system that can automatically embed for improved location and temperature monitoring. Temperature and location can now be tracked for medications and blood/plasma bags using RFID technology. The improved automated solutions, i.v.STATION, i.v.SOFT and i.v. STATION ONCO [...]

Tweet Harmonic Group, a South African company focused in barcoding, RFID and systems technology is in negotiations with a  private hospital in South Africa regarding the use of its RFID technology to track and secure newborns, according to Engineering News. Newborn babies will be secured using an RFID ankle bracelet, ensuring that only authorized personnel are [...]

Tweet RFID technology has been found to be safe for use with biologics based on a study supported by Intelleflex, a provider of on-demand data visibility solutions for supply chains and asset tracking. The study, “Effects of Radio Frequency Identification-related Radiation on In Vitro Biologics,” conducted by the Parental Drug Association (PDA) found that track [...]

Tweet Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) for efficiency measures in tracking and locating assets and other items for which lengthy records need to be maintained. Not only are assets tracked but there are also benefits in tracking people in reference to the business for marketing purposes [...]

Tweet Bluechiip Ltd. has developed a unique RFID asset-tracking solution and recently made its first sales order to ATCC who confirmed the order after a successful pilot trial of the tracking solution. ATCC is a US based leader in biological materials management and processes. ATCC has made the early purchase to facilitate the enhancement of [...]

Tweet (RFID World Canada) Market Center Management Company, a company dealing with trade centers and trade events across the world has teamed up with RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC). The affiliation will lead to an integrated showroom in Nashville Medical Trade Center. RFID (radio frequency identification) and RTLS (real time locating systems) technologies in healthcare [...]