MEMS the Word
MEMs tags will provide health-care organizations a more effective and accurate way to track and count instruments.
By Beth Bacheldor
Apr. 1, 2007—MEMS—micro-electro-mechanical systems smaller than microscopic dust mites—have been used for several decades in everything from inkjet printers to accelerometers that deploy air bags in cars. Now, Australian startup Mems-ID is using MEMS technology to create a low-cost RFID tag for tracking surgical instruments.
Mems-ID's RFID tags, which are about the size of a pinhead, can be affixed to surgical devices and withstand—as well as record via temperature sensing—sterilization processes. The company says the tags will provide health-care organizations with a more effective and accurate way to track and count instruments.
"The ultimate goal for this kind of application is in infection control," says Mems-ID CEO Fraser Clayton. "The medical industry has not had a satisfactory solution for this. We found the market need and then went away and invented the technology that will fulfill the application."
Apr. 1, 2007—MEMS—micro-electro-mechanical systems smaller than microscopic dust mites—have been used for several decades in everything from inkjet printers to accelerometers that deploy air bags in cars. Now, Australian startup Mems-ID is using MEMS technology to create a low-cost RFID tag for tracking surgical instruments.
Mems-ID's RFID tags, which are about the size of a pinhead, can be affixed to surgical devices and withstand—as well as record via temperature sensing—sterilization processes. The company says the tags will provide health-care organizations with a more effective and accurate way to track and count instruments.
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"The ultimate goal for this kind of application is in infection control," says Mems-ID CEO Fraser Clayton. "The medical industry has not had a satisfactory solution for this. We found the market need and then went away and invented the technology that will fulfill the application."
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