Singapore General Hospital will soon streamline its pharmacy with the new implementation of an RFID-enabled outpatient drug delivery system, reports to The Strait Times. Prescription drugs will be put together by a combination of manual and automated packers and then placed into baskets equipped with RFID tags. These RFID tags will monitor the location of […]

Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Okl. has teamed together with ClearCount Medical Solutions and Medline Industries to introduce an RFID platform aimed to prevent retained surgical sponge incidents. In all of its operating rooms, Jane Phillips implemented ClearCount’s SmartWand-DTX, an RFID-based platform that uniquely counts and detects all surgical sponges used during hospital procedures. […]

Massachusetts General Hospital has implemented an RFID-enabled supply automation system by Mobile Aspects to store, track and manage its medical devices and supplies. The system known as iRISupply uses passive RFID technology and real-time data management to automate clinician work flows and streamline communication processes for product storage tracking and supply chain management. MGH implemented […]

Hunt Regional Medical Center based out of Greenville, Texas has implemented the SmartWand-DTX, part of an RFID-based platform from ClearCount to prevent retained surgical sponge incidents. The SmartWand-DTX in conjunction with the SmartSponge System, both of which are FDA-cleared, uniquely identifies each surgical sponge so that they can easily be counter and detected. A safety […]

CEITEC S.A. announced it has signed an agreement with Hemobras to develop a RFID chip for tracking and managing blood bags. The solution will help to ensure traceability and safety of blood product management, as Hemobras is a Brazilian company, funded by government to produce plasma and other products from human blood. The system will […]

PositiveID Corporation announced that it has received an initial order for 15,000 of its radio frequency iGlucose units from Liberator Medical Holdings Inc. Liberator Medical offers products to Medicare-eligible patient populations with chronic conditions requiring repeat-orders of maintenance supplies. The implantable glucose-sensing microchip consists of a radio frequency-powered molecular sensor that uses a combination of […]

Visonic Technologies announced the immediate availability of its Elpas Door Kit Wandering Patient Starter Solution, designed for senior care facilities, assisted living residences, acute care hospitals or psychiatric units. Issuing a reusable wristband, the Elpas system allows the resident free and unregulated movement within the allowed interior area of the building. It reduces the need […]

BIO-key International has announced its partnership with electronic health record software developer Medflow Inc. has yielded the release of the TruStaff fingerprint-based login for Medflow Electronic Health Records. The TruStaff biometric login is designed as a measure for Medflow’s customers to better control access to patient health records while also simplifying the method of health […]

In health care, caregivers heal with their hands, says Proventix Systems CEO Harvey Nix. That is why the company has partnered with the University of Chicago Medical Center to pilot an RFID-enabled hand-hygiene quality and compliance monitoring system. Proventix will install its nGage touchless monitoring system to track hand hygiene compliance at the academic medical […]

Ensuring nursing home residents receive their own clean garments back is essential, according to a report by Supply & Demand Chain, as it permits residents to have as much control over their lives as possible. In response to this, more than 200 nursing homes in France and Italy have deployed RFID solutions to track and […]