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Mercy Medical Center Preps RFID-Enabled Gift Shop In an effort to streamline inventory management, purchases, theft reduction and sales promotions, volunteers working at the store will apply EPC Gen 2 tags to items for sale, and read them using RFID-enabled terminals.

RFID Takes Root in Bangladesh Early adopters include Apollo Hospitals Dhaka and the Bangladesh Army.

Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management The supermarket operator is planning to test whether placing RFID tags on customers' prescription orders will make locating and ringing up the orders faster and more accurate.

Carolinas Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment The hospital has added 26 RFID-enabled medical supply cabinets to its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, helping it cut inventory costs and improve operations.

Medical Center Set to Grow With RFID After a decade of seeking automated tracking for medical devices, Southern Ohio Medical Center has deployed a Radianse system to locate its assets. The hospital hopes to expand the system to monitoring patients.

An Interview With Impinj CEO Bill Colleran Impinj CEO Bill Colleran spoke with RFID Journal Editor Mark Roberti about the state of the market for UHF EPC systems, trends for 2008 and Impinj's product plans.

RFID Helps Radiation Oncology Dept. Locate Patient Charts The University of Maryland Medical Center's radiation oncology department is attaching a Wi-Fi-based active tag to each of its patient files, enabling it to find charts quickly.

Industry Leaders to Keynote at RFID Journal LIVE! 2008 RFID Journal's sixth annual conference and exhibition will feature addresses by Procter & Gamble COO Bob McDonald, Sam's Club executive VP Greg Johnston, and Motorola Enterprise Mobility CTO Ray Martino.

RFID Helps FDA Caseworkers Track Important Paperwork The agency's Office of Regulatory Affairs is using EPC Gen 2 technology to store and retrieve 10,000 investigation files at its San Francisco location, and plans to install the system at 14 other district offices.

Christiana Uses RTLS to Get Patients to Bed The health-care provider is employing a hybrid infrared-RFID system to track patients' locations and status, and to streamline the process of assigning each a bed.