The State of Florida will soon begin using RFID transponders currently in the cars of some Floridians for automatic toll collections to monitor commute times and traffic patterns with an eye towards improving the road system and providing accurate trip time information. And the state has tapped a Canadian-based company (with offices in the U.S.) […]

“Before considering the issues raised by this technology, it is helpful to understand the basics of its operation. An RFID system is composed of readers and tags. Readers generate signals that are dual purpose: they provide power for a tag, and they create an interrogation signal. A tag captures the energy it receives from a […]

“Now, librarians at the Vatican Library are using cutting-edge technology to keep track of the priceless ancient collection. About 30,000 books have been tagged with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips since implementation of the technology began last year. Two million of the 40-million piece collection will be tagged in the near future, allowing staff to […]

The American Civil Liberties Union today urged Virginia not to become the first state in the nation to place radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in its driver’s licenses. “Until now, the controversy over RFID tags has focused on Wal-Mart and other retail applications,” said Chris Calabrese, Program Counsel of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Project. […]

“As RFID technology becomes more advanced, they warn, it could allow both the tracking of books borrowed by a reader and the tracking of the reader via his library books. This could permit the government or other interested parties to compile a list of readers who have checked out books on particular topics – a […]

“But widespread ‘item-level’ tagging may actually happen much sooner–more a question of when, not if–discussions here at a radio frequency identification (RFID) conference indicate. Pharmaceutical companies are gearing up to slap tags on individual packages of certain prescription drugs within the next three years, under a mandate from the Food and Drug Administration, according to […]

In February of 2004 the FDA issued a regulation requiring barcodes on prescription drug and biological products. The agency hopes to reduce 500,000 medical errors in the next twenty years. Following a number of extraordinarily successful pilots, the electronic medical record and bar coded drug labels lay the foundation for a number of automatic ID […]

< ? $key="1001"; ?> As RFID becomes standard fare for the supply chain, new markets are beginning to emerge. This month RFID News explores the impact of auto ID on health care in interviews with the presidents of two bold companies aiming to revolutionize care and save the reluctant industry millions. Also, following up on […]

Evan Bontemps is the President and CEO of Exavera Technologies Incorporated How will RFID overcome the barriers that have prevented the adoption of barcodes and electronic medical records? The healthcare IT market is looking to upgrade their existing paper-based paradigm to the electronic medical record. To cross the technology chasm, the IT departments must include […]

A merger creating a new kid on the block, NEXT GENeSYS Corp., hopes to capitalize on an $8 billion-plus healthcare and prescription drug market. The merger will bring together four companies, specializing in RFID, online pharmaceuticals, and other wireless technologies. Announced in August, the merger isn’t complete yet and there has been no indication when […]