RFID Healthcare News

11. Latest RFID Development Kit For Hospital Tracking Solution 9/8/2009
    DAILY RFID has launched a RFID Kit for patient tracking solutions in hospitals, in response to the considerable attention RFID has drawn to hospitals. The kit can be used to track patients, doctors and medical equipment in hospitals.
12. Michigan IT Companies Helping The University Of Miami Center For Patient Safety Tackle A Leading Cause Of Death Using An RTLS Solution 7/29/2009
    Dynamic Computer Corporation (DCC) is piloting a cutting-edge sensor-based hand hygiene compliance solution to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) at the University of Miami Center for Patient Safety. HAIs are among the top ten causes of death in the US.
13. Guard RFID Solutions And Dynamic Computer Corporation Enter Into Distribution Agreement 6/16/2009
    Guard RFID Solutions Inc. announced recently that it has formed a distribution agreement with Dynamic RFID Solutions of Farmington Hills, Mich. to provide its next generation of Active RFID technology and solutions. Dynamic is making GuardRFID’s Infant Protection, Patient Protection and Asset Tracking solutions available to its customers.
14. Initial 2,600 Tag Deployment Is First Under Preferred Provider Relationship With University Healthsystems Consortium 6/12/2009
    Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), recently announced that UK HealthCare is deploying Ekahau RTLS to track mobile medical equipment at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington, Ky. Chandler Hospital is the first member of the University HealthSystems Consortium (UHC) to deploy the Ekahau RTLS solution under a preferred provider agreement announced earlier this year.
15. Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Of The Bar Code 6/2/2009
    The 35th anniversary of the Universal Product Code (U.P.C.) bar code will be celebrated Wednesday by GS1 US, the developer and administrator of the U.P.C. for more than 200,000 businesses in the United States.
16. CenTrak Announces 16 New Deployments This Year 6/2/2009
    CenTrak, a leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and people indoors, recently announced that it has installed over 6 million square feet of its market-leading hybrid certainty-based Gen2IR and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system in hospitals and healthcare sites this year.
17. Free RFID Tag Pricing Guide Assists End-Users 5/28/2009
    The RFID Tag Pricing Guide is the industry’s first objective report on current tag costs for end users. The free download includes standard pricing for UHF and HF tags and an explanation of key tag features that drive costs.
18. UPM Raflatac, Impinj And Zebra Technologies Collaborate To Deliver Cross-Industry, RFID-Enabled Concept For Item-Level Tagging And Validation 4/29/2009
    UPM Raflatac, Impinj and Zebra Technologies are pleased to announce the availability of a first-of-its-kind, RFID-enabled solution concept to optimize item-level tagging and validation for process-intensive industries, such as electronics manufacturing, retail manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals and third-party logistics.
19. ODIN Self-Inventorying SMART Container Breaks New Ground In Automated RFID Tracking 4/27/2009
    ODIN, the leader in the physics of RFID solutions for healthcare, aerospace, financial services, and government agencies, introduces the ODIN self-inventorying SMART Container® — a first in automated technology for the tracking of critical assets.
20. Wavetrend Wins Major Tracking Contract For Global Container Monitoring And Security Application In Afghanistan 4/27/2009
    Wavetrend Technologies, a world leader in the deployment of active RFID solutions, announced recently that it was awarded an exclusive contract to supply its active RFID technology for a robust container management and high value asset tracking application by Oryx Projects, a major secure logistics and container management firm.