Premier Purchasing Partners, one of the nation’s largest group purchasing organizations, has awarded campus card provider CBORD its third consecutive supplier contract. That means the Ithaca, N.Y.-based company will continue to provide food service management systems, transaction-processing systems and security access systems to Premier members and affiliates until December 2011. Besides campus cards for universities, […]

The Smart Card Alliance has released a white paper, “A Health care CFO’s Guide to Smart Card Technology and Applications,” detailing how the technology can help the market. Health care is an industry that has been relying more on IT to lower costs and create administrative efficiencies, improve patient outcomes and enhance physician and patient […]

On news of a possible bailout with upwards of $1 billion of federal money for state Medicaid funding, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, Newt Gingrich, recommended requiring biometric authentication to replace the current system of card or paper identification. Gingrich says this would be one […]

3M Company has launched an RFID-enabled system to track hospital patient records. The new plug-and-play Patient Record Tracking Solution is intended to make it easy for hospital staff to quickly and easily locate patient records. The system places an RFID-enabled tag on each patient record. The tags are linked to a 3M database, and a […]

Pittsburgh-based Mobile Aspects, a provider of RFID-enabled health care solutions, has announced a financing plan for cash-strapped hospitals and other health care institutions. The new program, called RFID FlexPay, makes Mobile Aspects’ solutions available though rental or leasing agreements. With RFID FlexPay, payment can be arranged on a monthly basis for a variety of contract […]

Ticketing, physical access and information sharing are just a few examples of other applications By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Mention near field communication and most think mobile payments. That’s probably because the next generation technology is being touted as a replacement for contactless cards or potentially even the next wallet. NFC will enable a phone […]

Exhibitors at a recent medical conference in Chicago were able to use RFID to identify potential customers, thanks to a two-tiered deployment of RFID applications by Alliance Tech. Applications deployed by the Austin-based events solutions provider enabled organizers of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference to track attendees, then provided insights about the […]