WellSpan Health, located in south-central Pennsylvania, is using an integrated real-time location solution from the team of AeroScout and Four Rivers Software System at its York Hospital. The combined solution pairs Four River’s Total Maintenance System to manage inventories and track and distribute the associated maintenance activities, with AeroScout’s Wi-Fi RFID asset management solution for […]

As more health care providers begin the move to electronic medical records, efforts are underway to better secure the computers and networks that store the data. The U.S. government’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and it’s $19 billion for providers has been the driver for many to move to electronic […]

Indigo Identityware, a developer of identity and access management solutions, has announced a new solution that brings biometric authentication and proximity card authentication to electronic signatures for prescriptions filled out by physicians. In addition to the new technology for authentication in Indigo’s solution, called eSign, there is the option of utilizing a PIN as a […]

In an effort to tighten efficiencies and correct inaccuracies, researchers and entrepreneurs around the world are exploring different methods of capturing patients’ health records, says MIT’s Technology Review. Some countries have developed smart cards that can hold a patient’s medical history. Researchers in the U.K. have created MyCare, a smart card with a fold-out USB […]

BIO-key International has deployed its fingerprint recognition software to Tennessee Healthcare Systems as part of an upgraded logical access control system that would increase the convenience of access to critical systems at the hospital while also increasing security. Among the reasons the Tennessee Healthcare Systems decided to use BIO-key’s solution over competitors’ was due to […]

With the budget battle underway, the case for a strong identity credential for Medicare may be too good for Congress to pass up. Smart cards could help the federal government to reduce Medicare fraud and abuse to the tune of $370 billion in the next 10-years, says Kelli Emerick, executive director of the Secure ID […]

The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, an in- and outpatient care facility in Northeast Ohio, has partnered with ClearCount Medical Solutions to implement its RFID-based platform designed to prevent retained surgical sponge incidents. The ClearCount SmartSponge System works in conjunction with the SmartWand-DTX to identify each sponge in an operating room, so that they […]

Zetes, the European provider in automatic identification solutions and services for goods and people, has announced the acquisition of the Belgian company RFIDEA. Zetes offers a variety of solutions for applications such as manufacturing, transportation and logistics, retail and health care. And by acquiring RFIDEA, Zetes will strengthen its RFID-based offerings, particularly in the pharma […]

The Smart Card Alliance and the NFC Forum will co-host an event focused on near field communication in the spring 2012, the two organizations announced. The NFC conference will focus on the state of the technology, NFC devices and add-ons, ecosystem development, use cases for both payment and non-payment NFC-enabled applications, implementation, and North America […]

Questions surrounding the integrity of health care records loom and with the shift from paper records to electronic, many people are worried that records are not safe and hackers can get in and steal sensitive patient information. In the recent past, there has been only one fine given out for the mismanagement of records, since […]