AeroScout announced that Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is using its Wi-Fi RFID asset management and temperature monitoring solutions to track and manage critical medical equipment. Using AeroScout MobileView software, the academic medical center’s staff can find items and ensure that equipment is available when and where it is needed. OHSU uses AeroScout Asset […]

CardLogix’s Smart Toolz Smart Card Development Kit has received a major face-lift. Smart Toolz works to develop smart card applications in areas such as identity, health care, stored value, and loyalty. The original Smart Toolz feature, CardAppz, which test drives applications, can reveal to programmers-configurable options, including user interface and security, for custom applications. New […]

St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill. has selected the Amelior Tracker system from Patient Care Technology Systems to automatically track medical equipment throughout their facility. With the Amelior Tracker system, St. John’s Hospital will start by tracking some 2,500 mobile assets including IV pumps, beds, C5 tablets, DVT equipment and feeding pumps. Amelior Tracker will […]

Verayo and SkyeTek have partnered with GLOBALPCCA, an investments and health care solutions group, to deliver an RFID authentication solution to target consumer and pharmaceutical product anti-counterfeiting in Africa. At the request of GLOBALPCCA, SkyeTek has created RFID readers in several form factors: a small pen-sized form factor, called the PENTESTA for consumers to carry […]

ClearCount Medical Solutions, a Pittsburgh-based provider of patient safety products for the operating room, has closed its $5 million series B financing round. The company intends to use the funds to further research and development of its RFID-based solutions for operating rooms. ClearCount has already developed the first FDA-cleared sponge counting and detection solution. The […]

Innovatum Inc., a Sugar Hill, Ga.-baded provider of enterprise compliance software and services, has added label printing and audit log reporting to the growing suite of Web-based modules for its ROBAR Enterprise System, a bar code and RFID label system for designing, reviewing, approving and printing pharmaceutical and medical device labels. The new modules allow […]

Haldor Advanced Technologies Ltd. announced that its ORLocate, an RFID-based system designed to assist surgical teams reduce the number of items left in patients during operations, has earned clearance from the Food and Drug Administration. ORLocate provides initial counts and item additions, the number of items not located, the number of clean and soiled sponges, […]

Aethon announced recently that it’s automated tracking and chain-of-custody system – MedEx – is now operational at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The MedEx System serves as enhancement to the TUG robot, also developed by Aethon, and allows hospital pharmacies to know the real-time location and status of medications throughout the facility. Combining passive […]

PAREXEL International Corp., a global biopharmaceutical services organization, announced that it has developed an integrated temperature recording solution specifically designed for clinical trial supply processing and transportation. The packaging container incorporates an RFID tag for temperature recording and dedicated compartment for a mobile phone, providing automatic tracking and remote, high-speed transmission of the complete temperature […]

GuardRFID, provider of RFID-based technologies for real time tracking in the health care industry, announced that it has joined the DASH7 Alliance, a coalition of organizations promoting the advanced development of the ISO 18000-7 (DASH7) standard for wireless sensor networks. As a developer of active RFID technology and solutions for real time locating systems and […]