Our company, Biovations, manufactures health-care products in Australia. We need to contact a passive RFID manufacturer with an emphasis on health care. Please advise.

—Kind regards, Ian

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Ian,

There are many, and it would be difficult to narrow down the list without knowing more precisely what you are trying to do. Therefore, I will provide some companies, and if none fit the bill, feel free to submit another question with more detail. Here are some passive RFID providers that focus on the health-care market, along with the products they offer:

• CipherLab: Handheld readers for health-care applications
• Coding France: Uniform-management system
• Data2 Corp.: Labels for blood bags and test tubes
• Farsens: Temperature sensors for monitoring refrigerated storage units
• HID Global: Ruggedized passive tags for health-care assets
• Information Mediary Corp.: Blister packs with RFID sensors for tracking when patients take their medication
• Jamison RFID: Portals for passive RFID readers
• Keonn Technologies: Smart shelves and panels
• Lucomm Technologies: Asset-management software
• Precision Dynamics Corp. (PDC): Patient wristbands
• RFTrail: Software for managing health-care assets
• Shanghai Quanray Electronics: RFID labels for pharmaceuticals and other items
• Star Systems International: Tags and readers for a variety of health-care applications
• StickNFind: RFID asset tags
• STid: Readers designed for medical waste collection and the identification of drugs, biologics and medical devices
• Tageos: Passive RFID labels for tissue samples, medical devices and other inventory items
• ThingMagic: Reader modules for cabinets and other storage units
• Venture Research: Ultra-thin reader for surgical instrument trays or working areas
• Videx: RF locks for valuable items and drugs
• Xerafy: Passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) tags for medical instruments

—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal