Group Health Reinvents Patient Care With RTLS

Group Health Reinvents Patient Care With RTLS

The health-care provider’s new clinic, equipped with a CenTrak hybrid IR and active RFID system and Intelligent Insites software platform, eliminates the need for waiting rooms, lab visits and trips to the pharmacy.

Can RFID Monitor Patients’ Vital Signs?

How might we send a patient’s telemetry data to a server so that caretakers can monitor all patients at once? I would prefer to use Wi-Fi network transmission. —Shabana ——— Dear Shabana, It sounds like what you are referring to is telemedicine, in which patients...

Motorola Embeds RFID Tags in Handhelds

If more RFID product manufacturers leverage the technology’s benefits, it will provide potential end users with greater confidence in radio frequency identification.

Can RFID Track More Than a Million Individuals at a Time?

What is the feasibility of monitoring such a large group of people over a 20-square-mile area during a three-day event, using some sort of radio frequency identification solution? —Name withheld ——— The answer depends on the event’s set-up, as well as what you...
Nike Korea, Nestlé Philippines Like U-Like

Nike Korea, Nestlé Philippines Like U-Like

A number of companies have been using UbiU’s U-Like solution to enable consumers to share information and photos with friends via Facebook and Twitter, in real time, even when not connected to the Internet.

RFID News Roundup

Trimble expands functionality of ThingMagic RFID readers; Omni-ID unveils three new RFID tags for tracking tools, containers; Thailand’s petroleum exploration firm PTTEP deploys emergency-evacuation RFID solution; FileTrail, BlueStar offer RFID-enabled asset-tracking system; Axios announces first purchase order for its tagged pallets.