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| Virtua Health Expects Improved Bed Management From RFID | 11/24/2009 |
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The New Jersey hospital operator's initial deployment will consist of 5,500 hybrid RFID-infrared tags from GE Healthcare, for tracking assets, patients and employees. |
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| RFID Weekly News Roundup -- September 3, 2009 | 09/03/2009 |
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Investment to develop RFID tags to secure pharmaceuticals plus RTLS contract agreements by a major hospital supplier highlight this week's RFID news, which also includes several NFC developments. |
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| RFID Tags Survive Hospital Sterilization | 04/07/2009 |
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The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is using RTLS tags from Awarepoint to track surgical instrumentation throughout the sterilization process. |
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| Reva Launches RTLS Solution Based on Passive RFID | 04/06/2009 |
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Reva Systems is offering passive UHF-based item tracking to hospitals with its new Reva-4-Healthcare product, which integrates AeroScout's MobileView RTLS software. The passive system can be used for wristbands, IV bags and other items that can't conveniently carry an active tag, and can be used alongside WiFi RTLS technology. |
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| EPCIS, RFID Effective in European Pharmaceutical Pilot | 01/27/2009 |
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RFID tags, two-dimensional bar code labels and the EPCIS data sharing standard successfully helped track more than 50,000 drug packages during a three-year pilot in Europe. Drugs made in Ireland and the Netherlands were tracked through manufacturers, packagers, distributors, wholesalers and logistics providers to a London hospital. |
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| RTLS Goes Mainstream with New Ekahau Deal | 01/08/2009 |
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RTLS solution provider Ekahau yesterday announced its award of a three-year preferred provider agreement with University HealthSystem Consortium, a group purchasing organization representing almost 300 academic medical centers and affiliated hospitals. The agreement signals RTLS's move into the healthcare technology mainstream. |
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| Carolinas HealthCare Launches Huge RTLS System | 10/09/2007 |
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Carolinas HealthCare System is applying WiFi tags to more than 5,000 assets in what technology provider Ekahau calls one of the largest healthcare implementations of RTLS technology in the US. It is installing RTLS systems at multiple facilities to help centrally track assets as they are shared across 15 hospitals. |
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| New RFID Medical Cabinets Deployed at 50 Hospitals | 09/17/2007 |
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ASD Healthcare and Blue Vector announced RFID-based drug cabinets they developed have been installed in more than 50 hospitals. Active RFID tags are applied to individual drug doses so an in-cabinet reader can monitor inventory levels for automated replenishment. Other integrated sensors monitor storage conditions and issue alerts. |
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| Med Distributor Converts to Gen2 RFID for Item Tracking | 09/05/2007 |
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MBA Grupo, a leading Spanish medical products distributor, is converting its warehouse facilities to track all items with Gen2 RFID. The company is capturing product serial numbers and expiration dates during shipping and receiving, and plans to extend RFID reading to its hospital customers for stock management. |
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| RFID to Cure Detroit Hospital Device-Tracking Ailments | 08/31/2007 |
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The DMC Harper University Hospital, part of the Detroit Medical Center in Michigan, will install an RFID deployment to track the institution's growing number of medical devices. The chosen solution is called iRISupply from Mobile Aspects of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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