HID Global and Dell announced a partnership to combine technologies for the health care market. HID Global has provided OMNIKEY 5321 readers for use with Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing solution, which offers security through a single authentication with their own ID badge. The solution enables health care providers to have secure access to authorized data […]

Groups of students from Sydney’s University of Technology (UTS) created use cases for NFC technology in smart phones. As reported by CIO.com, UTS’ u.lab in partnership with Australian-based Commerce in Motion are hosting the “Launchpad” event, which enables students the opportunity to showcase a semester’s worth of work in the IT, business and design disciplines. […]

Burlington Medical Supplies (BMS) has partnered together with ODIN, a provider of RFID-enabled health care solutions, to launch a new inventory management system for radiation garments at hospitals and health care facilities. The Burlington Apron Inventory Management System (BAIMS) is available through BurmedID, a division of BMS. This inventory management system for lead aprons helps […]

Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Mo. has partnered with Terso Solutions Inc. for an RFID-based automated stockroom inventory management solution. Terso’s RFID stockroom inventory management solution tracks who took what and when in a 24/7 environment – from charge capture and maintaining accurate inventory records, to PAR levels and reordering. The real-time monitoring […]

Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville has implemented the AeroScout real-time location system (RTLS) across its health care facilities to improve operational efficiency and staff satisfaction by automating asset tracking and temperature monitoring. The teaching hospital originally implemented AeroScout Asset Management to track approximately 1,000 assets – with a combined value of $1.1 […]

Precise Biometrics has announced a six-month contract with Impeco Group to deliver match-on-card technology. The Match-On-Card solution will be incorporated into Impeco’s system, enabling the company to provide a unique link between patient ID and the in-vitro automation process. Match-on-Card will enable the patient ID to be verified at the point of sample extraction, when […]

New market research published by Transparency Market Research estimates the global RFID market for health care to be worth $1.2 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $34 billion by 2018, growing at a CAGR of 19.3% from 2012 to 2018. According to the report, “RFID in Health care Industry – Global Market Size, […]

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, the state entity that aims to improve health care quality, cost, efficiency, and patient safety through electronic exchange of health information, announced an agreement with HT Systems to provide the PatientSecure biometric identification solution for health care providers in Michigan. The agreement means health care providers in Michigan will […]

Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia has partnered with technology specialist Visionstream to deploy an approximately $74 million solution that includes some thousands of tracked RFID tags, according to The Register. The integrated wireless network will be deployed throughout the facility which will combine tagging and tracking functionality to manage both patient intake and care, […]

Health Robotics announced an upgrade to its auto-labeling and scanning systems to automatically embed RFID for improved location and temperature control tracking for medications and blood/plasma bags Available now, the company’s upgraded Sterile Compounding Automation solutions – i.v.STATION, i.v.SOFT, and i.v.STATION ONCO – optionally offer the ability to embed and automatically affix an RFID tag […]