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Reproductive Clinic Uses RFID to Guarantee Parental Identity
At Overlake Reproductive Health, passive 13.56 MHz RFID tags and interrogators track human sperm, eggs and embryos throughout the assisted-reproduction process.

HP, Nosco, SupplyScape, Systech Intl. Team Up on E-Pedigree Solution
The companies are offering an integrated solution of software, hardware, RFID tags and 2-D bar-coded labels and services designed to help fight drug counterfeiting and create electronic pedigrees.

Health Facility Uses RTLS to Provide 'Concierge' Care
In Houston, a freestanding provider of emergency and diagnostic services leverages a real-time location system to offer a higher level of personalized health care.

Alien Adds Five Products to Gen 2 Portfolio
Alien Technology's CEO told EPC Connection attendees that the company is seeing significant sales growth for closed-loop applications of RFID, rather than demand from goods manufacturers seeking to comply with retail-industry tagging mandates.

HP Canada Partners With Universities to Create RFID Labs
The joint effort, participants say, helps all involved parties conduct RFID pilots, carry out research and better serve the needs of industrial companies and other end users.

RxTrakker Puts Patient Data in ID Bracelet
The system uses encryption and compression to store a patient's medical data on a wristband's embedded RFID tag, providing health-care workers with fast access to vital information.

Rochester Institute of Technology Researchers Work on Sensor Network
The goal of the multiyear project is to develop a secure RFID-based system that would enable care providers to remotely monitor patients' cardiac health and medicine consumption.

Indonesia's Special Forces Unit Adopts RFID
An RFID-enabled identity card enables soldiers to purchase items, and might soon be expanded to enable access to their medical history.

AT&T Debuts Managed RTLS for Health-Care Organizations
The service includes the installation, management, maintenance and hosting of an RFID-based real-time location system that companies can use to track assets, patients and staff.

Wireless Sensor Adoption Expected to Grow Tenfold
According to a survey of industrial companies, 40 percent of respondents plan to deploy wireless solutions to monitor machine health.


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