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Denver Health Adopting a Hospital-Wide RTLS System Based on the success of a pilot project, the organization plans to apply Wi-Fi-based RFID tags to 2,700 pieces of equipment and study new ways to use its real-time locating system to improve processes and its bottom line.

Carolinas HealthCare System Deploying RTLS at Its 20 Hospitals The organization will attach Wi-Fi based active RFID tags to 5,000 medical devices, to help ensure equipment is properly serviced and available where and when it is needed.

RFID Journal Launches RFID Health-Care Event The one-day conference is focused on helping health-care providers understand how the technology can be employed to improve patient safety, hospital operations and supply chain efficiencies.

Microsoft Seeks RFID Support for HealthVault The software giant is encouraging companies to develop RFID applications for the free online medical database service it recently launched.

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.