Sandata Technologies, a developer of IT solutions for the health care and social services industry, has announced an agreement with Allscripts, a provider of software and IT solutions for physicians and hospitals. Sandata’s biometric system, Santrax, will be the exclusive time and attendance tracking product offered by Allscripts. Santrax’s basic capabilities track hourly employees work […]

In a recent study, wood pallets used to ship food in the Washington Metropolitan Area have tested positive for three types of deadly bacteria: Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria. The study was commissioned by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), which happens to operate a pallet rental service that exclusively uses plastic pallets embedded with RFID […]

Japan’s Tagged World Project has developed an in-home RFID system designed to determine the “living willingness” of the elderly. The system involves tagging various objects around an elderly person’s dwelling that are read via an RFID reader sewn into the occupant’s slippers. Every time the elderly person interacts with the tagged objects (for instance, every […]

If an electronic medical record program is established for the U.S. health care system, policymakers need to define an identity management infrastructure that guarantees the security of those records, suggests two Smart Card Alliance councils in a new white paper. The Health care and Identity Councils suggest using existing federal standards for smart cards to […]

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is testing how RFID systems affect the function of medical devices–such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps and cardiac monitors–with the aim of developing a set of standard testing protocols that companies can use to test their equipment for electromagnetic interference. The test protocol development is […]

VeriChip Corporation announced that it has selected Raytheon Microelectronics España/ECLAN for the production of the company’s implantable microchips, including the chip used in its HealthLink patient identification system, its new eight millimeter microchip for use in Medical Components Inc.’s vascular access medical devices, and its glucose-sensing RFID microchip under development with RECEPTORS LLC. In December […]

The Ocean Medical Center (OMC) in Brick, N.J. has recently partnered with RF Technologies to install its Safe Place Infant and Pediatric Security Solution to help protect babies in the infant unit from abduction. The system uses RFID technology to track babies wearing transponders throughout the infant ward. In the event of an abduction, the […]