AeroScout Inc., a provider of asset visibility solutions for a variety of industries, has announced recent deployments of its systems at two health care institutions affiliated with Ivy League universities. Both the Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have selected AeroScout to supply asset tracking applications for its facilities. At Yale-New Haven Hospital […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a health ID card through partnerships with EXTENSION Inc. and TrustBearer Labs. This system has been deployed at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City with the issuance of the first G&D patient health cards on April 1. EXTENSION Health Connect provides patient identification and information exchange. It […]

Gemalto announced that it has become a vendor partner of SAFE-BioPharma Association. Gemalto is joining with biopharmaceutical and health care industry to help the industry achieve its goal of a fully electronic business environment by 2012. Gemalto is the first smart card provider to join SAFE-BioPharma. The company has been an industry partner since 2004, […]

When SNIF Labs Inc. introduced its flagship product, the SNIF tag, the target audience was America’s canine population and the owners who obsess over them. But a combination of lean financial times and imaginative university researchers have led the company to a completely different market, the staff of an Arizona hospital. SNIF tags (the acronym […]

The Smart Card Alliance released a brief for federal health care policymakers on the importance of reliable identification technology in the market. “With the $17 billion federal government investment planned for health care IT as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, we thought this was the right time to bring […]

FaceKey, a developer of biometric technologies specializing in fingerprint and facial recognition, has announced that they have been selected by nursing home Meridian Care to provide San Antonio homes with FaceKey’s EntryGuard time and attendance employee tracking system. EntryGuard is the fingerprint recognition system that will be replacing Meridian’s existing time clock system. In addition […]

The Cleveland Clinic, a major academic medical center, has selected an RFID-enabled solution from Infolinx System Solutions to manage and track the records in its study-related patient files. The clinic will use Infolinx’s flagship product, InfolinxWEB, to track its paper-based records throughout the paperwork’s life cycle, from creation to disposal. Infolinx, a provider of enterprise […]