GE Healthcare has begun trials of its RFID-enabled Smart Patient Room health-monitoring system at New York’s Bassett Medical Center, according to eWeek. As part of GE’s Healthymagination initiative, RFID sensors are installed in soap and sanitizer dispensers to determine if medical personnel are following hygiene and washing their hands before and after seeing a patient; […]

Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center, San Francisco, has elected AeroScout to provide its patient safety, staff safety and asset tracking solutions at its nursing facility set to open later this year. Patients with cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer’s, and need an additional level of safety will wear AeroScout wristband tags, which allow caregivers to […]

Ross Mathis, Contributing Editor The Health Care Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Juniper Networks, Anakam hosted a discussion on the importance of access control within health care networks, and introduce solutions that can provide a secure pathway to grant the appropriate access to hospital resources and patient records. Offering secure remote access to your […]

CardLogix’s Smart Toolz Smart Card Development Kit has received a major face-lift. Smart Toolz works to develop smart card applications in areas such as identity, health care, stored value, and loyalty. The original Smart Toolz feature, CardAppz, which test drives applications, can reveal to programmers-configurable options, including user interface and security, for custom applications. New […]

St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill. has selected the Amelior Tracker system from Patient Care Technology Systems to automatically track medical equipment throughout their facility. With the Amelior Tracker system, St. John’s Hospital will start by tracking some 2,500 mobile assets including IV pumps, beds, C5 tablets, DVT equipment and feeding pumps. Amelior Tracker will […]

Dates: November 3-4, 2010 Location: New York, NY Venue: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center URL: http://www.iscsolutions.com Description: ISC East is now ISC Solutions! ISC Solutions is much more than a name change – it is a reinvented event based on input and feedback from your colleagues and peers. You’ll find a new show floor layout, […]

Verayo and SkyeTek have partnered with GLOBALPCCA, an investments and health care solutions group, to deliver an RFID authentication solution to target consumer and pharmaceutical product anti-counterfeiting in Africa. At the request of GLOBALPCCA, SkyeTek has created RFID readers in several form factors: a small pen-sized form factor, called the PENTESTA for consumers to carry […]