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.
Mi-Tu, a high-end retailer, has installed RFID-enabled mirrors, catalogs and security systems designed to improve the shopping experience and boost sales.
The Independent Dialysis Foundation hopes the trial, carried out in conjunction with VeriChip, will help spare its patients from unnecessary procedures and medications.
The aviation industry has long been considered a prime candidate for RFID adoption. RFID Update spoke with Pankaj Shukla, director of RFID business development in aviation for Motorola, about the industry’s RFID adoption and where the most popular applications of the technology exist today.
Despite a news report quoting anonymous sources saying the pharmaceutical company is ditching RFID, the project continues.
Despite a news report quoting anonymous sources saying the pharmaceutical company is ditching RFID, the project continues.
PC Magazine editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff thinks it’s a good idea to implant RFID tags in children.
The agency is consolidating its files into one large depot, and plans to use RFID to identify, store and retrieve them.
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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.