FDA-approved SurgiChip™ supports JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals by helping to eliminate wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgeries AMTSystems announced today several new pilot programs for SurgiChip™ – the market’s first FDA-approved RFID verification system to help prevent wrong-patient, wrong-procedure and wrong-site surgeries. “With The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) reporting five to eight […]

“Efforts to introduce electronic-ticketing systems in Germany’s huge mass transit sector have moved forward with the successful testing of a smart card system that uses RFID (radio frequency identification).”

“The RFID (radio frequency identification) system that tracks and identifies vehicles used to transport aircraft fuel at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York is now being used on hundreds of food-service and employee transportation vehicles at the air traffic hub. To ease runway and facilities access, trucks with airport access are equipped […]

“The San Antonio security consultant is one of a small but growing number of people who have wireless chips implantedm to make personal information available to authorised parties with a radio frequency identification (RFID) scanner. In Krull’s case, the chip was implanted two months ago so hospital staff could access his medical information quickly in […]

VeriSign today celebrates its tenth year in business. Since the company’s inception in April 1995, VeriSign has had a singular mission: to enable and protect electronic interactions on the Internet and voice networks. From its roots in Internet security and authentication, VeriSign has continued to expand its portfolio of intelligent infrastructure services to address the […]

Jesse Josephson, Vice President of Marketing for PartsBase, has been on the leading edge of technology marketing and implementation for more than seven years. For decades the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries have struggled to increase the efficiency of their supply chain. To date, the vast majority of proposed solutions have not made a lasting […]

< ? $key="9876"; ?> While retail distribution continues to claim the attention of industry watchers, new channels for RFID technology have opened. As the size, complexity and cost of hardware continues to drop, another entry point has revealed itself &mdash the mobile phone. From distributed sensor networks to tiny embedded readers, applications linking RFID to […]

A Calgary, Alberta, Canada company has offered up new technology that will allow smartphones and personal digital assistants to serve as RFID readers/writers. The new card will also offer Near Field Communication (NFC) compatibility. It is, the company claims, the first RFID reader/writer SD (secure digital) card in the industry According to Wireless Dynamics‘ March […]

Looking to stem failure rates &emdash; sometimes as high as 50% &emdash; due to mismatched or out of synch RFID tags and readers, a Reston, VA company has developed a benchmark report that can assist end users in determining the right kind of tag and reader for their particular environment. “One of the things we […]