Haldor Advanced Technologies and Intelligent InSites announced a joint venture to design and develop an enterprise real-time location system (RTLS) solution to help improve hospital operations. The integrated solution incorporates Intelligent InSites’ enterprise RTLS software platform with Haldor’s ORLocate system, enabling hospitals and sterilization centers to track, monitor and manage the flow and capabilities of […]

Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced a partnership agreement with Toronto-based Invixium Identity. The agreement enables Invixium to become a value-added reseller of Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine (FVAE) and the H-1 Biometric Finger Vein scanner. The FVAE system promotes IT security through its identity assurance process and accurate matching. It uses near-infrared light to transmit light […]

BIO-key International, Inc. will be showing its newest fingerprint biometric authentication for the health care field at this week’s Epic Annual User Group Meeting in Verona, Wisc. BIO-key’s systems are designed to help hospital staffers and health care providers speed up the time it takes to access and update patient records, while increasing security measures […]

Colchester General Hospital is deploying wireless technology to track the whereabouts of valuable and potentially lifesaving clinical equipment across its estate. The deployment is made up of an Ekahau real-time location tracking system (RTLS), which leverages the hospital’s existing wireless network. Ekahau RTLS tags have been fitted to various items including wheelchairs, beds, portable ventilators, […]

Harmonic Group is in negotiations with a South African private hospital regarding the use of its RFID technology to track and secure newborns, according to Engineering News. Newborns will be secured using an RFID ankle bracelet, ensuring that only authorized personnel are allowed to access to the nursery. The carry tags will enable authorized personnel […]

Smart Card Alliance’s Industry Councils will be holding elections to designate steering committees and officers. Five of the six Industry councils will be electing new committees and officers— Access Control, Health care, Identity, Payments and Transportation— as the newly formed Mobile and NFC Council held its election in May of 2012. The councils’ nomination process […]

McKesson Corp. announced the launch of its latest RFID-based cabinets, designed to enable hospitals the ability to better manage expensive physician preference items (PPIs). The cabinets use low-touch technology to automate control of high-dollar medical inventory, including stents, pacemakers, implants and orthopedic supplies. The cabinets enable hospital staff to manage inventories automatically and give nursing […]

BIO-key International Inc. will present advances in fingerprint biometric authentication technology at the Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) at McCormick Place in Chicago on Aug. 15 to 17. Ed Black, director of healthcare solutions for BIO-key, will be presenting its technology with John Judd, manager, product management at Allscripts. Black intends to show how the technology […]

The SAFE-BioPharma Association has named Peter Alterman, Ph.D., its Chief Operating Officer. The Association is a non-profit collaboration responsible for the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and digital signature standard for the life science and health care industries. Alterman has 33 years of information security experience in the U.S. federal government, most recently with the National […]

A wrist watch-like device developed by Cory Cornelius, a scientist at Dartmouth University, can determine a person’s “bioimpedance” that would enable medical devices to identify its wearer. The device measures the wearer’s unique response to a weak electrical signal, and when used in conjunction with medical devices like blood pressure cuffs could send patient information […]