
Health Care


Study Predicts Annual RFID Growth Near 20 Percent for Healthcare
Coherent Market Insights' 2020 report finds that COVID-19 has fueled the use of RFID for improving drug and device inventory management, as well as for medical devices, automated data collection and reducing time-consuming, error-prone tasks.
Healthcare Supply Chain Management
RFID technology is helping providers tackle problems to improve patient outcomes.
RFID Manages COVID-19 Vaccine Administration at Pennsylvania Hospital
Reading Hospital is capturing the status of the vaccines it stores and injects into patients' arms, expanding its use of the UHF RFID solution from Kit Check with which it already managed pharmaceuticals.
Ambiq Markets Low-Power MCU, SoC for Commercial, Industrial Markets
The company's BLE-enabled microcontroller and system-on-chip are being built into millions of wireless sensor devices to capture, manage and transmit data from sensors at low power, enabling greater functionality in healthcare wearables, industrial equipment trackers and other IoT-based solutions.
RFID in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Patient Safety and Changing the Landscape
The technology offers numerous benefits for the healthcare sector, including a reduction in human errors, improved patient safety and augmented task accuracy.
A Healthy Market in an Unhealthy World
During the COVID-19 pandemic's first year, the real-time location systems sector has seen strong growth at hospitals.
NFC, BLE Track Contacts, Staff Movements for Senior Living
British Columbia's Oxford Senior Care residence has provided hybrid technology fobs to its 50 staff members, as well as to visitors and prospective residents, to ensure each individual who arrives onsite completes a questionnaire about his or her health and can then be tracked while moving around the facility.
RFID News Roundup
U.S. Navy awards contract to VOS Systems for BLE contact tracing; Descartes Systems Group launches open network initiative for BLE air cargo tracking; WISeKey PKI enables IoT manufacturers to embed trusted digital certificates; Onset unveils BLE datalogger for vaccine storage, transportation; Pasternack intros Yagi antennas for RFID inventory tracking.