Axalto, the world’s leading provider of microprocessor cards, announced today that it has been selected to provide all two million microprocessor cards for the Puerto Rico Department of Health’s new Health Smart Card (“Tarjeta Inteligente De Salud”) program. The project covers the entire Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and is the largest deployment of health care […]

Software designed to help companies meet Sarbanes-Oxley mandates or comply with HIPAA requirements by assuring that the right people have the right access to the right information, was recently announced through a partnership of silex technology america, Inc. and Sig-Tec. The software, combined with silex’s fingerprint devices, allows enterprises to provide biometric authentication for access […]

“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 […]

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 […]

The FDA report on counterfeit drugs has only been out for seven months and already at least one group has stepped forward to show that a “track and trace” method of tracking drugs is feasible. On Sept. 28, a group managed by Accenture released its first report on utilizing EPC and RFID technologies across the […]

“Speaking today at a conference, top DOD officials said they would like to eventually use RFID systems to not only manage the department’s supply chain but also gather precise information about the deterioration of parts such as Humvee tires in sustained combat operations.” And later, “FDA officials called on pharmaceutical manufacturers in February to apply […]