VeriChip is partnering with Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey on a 24-month clinical trail to prove its FDA-approved implantable VeriMed Patient Identification System saves lives. The physician-insurance collaboration, taking place at Hackensack University Medical Center, pairs VeriChip’s RFID-infused microchips with chronically ill patients so that ER physicians can access those patients’ […]

It’s a teeny, tiny memory chip the size of a grain. Called “Memory Spot,” Hewlett-Packard’s new wireless data chip, announced this week, can be attached to any object, making information more ubiquitous. But it’s got big, big power. And it’s expected to rival RFID in various applications, such as hospital writstbands for patient identification. HP […]

Urgent care facilities, hospitals, and health centers will enjoy numerous paybacks when RFID becomes part of the care plan, says Chainlink Research. The company’s latest report, “RFID in Clinical Settings: New Dimensions in the Chain of Care” evaluates potential uses of RFID, examining benefits and risks of the technology within a clinical environment. Among them, […]

In another collaboration for world dominance in RFID (or at least to make current product lines better), Zebra Technologies Corp. just announced plans to license Magellan’s Phase Jitter Modulatin (PJM) RFID technology. What’s that, you say? “Ratified in 2004, PJM is an HF RFID system specified in an existing global standard: ISO/IEC 18000-3 mode 2, […]

Health pros are getting hi-tech to protect every aspect of their patients’ lives. As such, VeriChip will be touting its RFID-based infant protection solutions at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Convention trade show in Baltimore, this weekend and early next week. Among the goodies at the VeriChip booth this year: demonstrations […]

Manufacturers, distributors and others with eyes on what’s Thai, head’s up: Frost & Sullivan’s Automation & Electronics practice in Asia and Middle East will host an analyst briefing teleconference on Thailand’s RFID Market, on June 30, 2006, at 11:00 hrs (GMT+08:00hrs) Singapore time. The briefing will give a detailed analysis of the RFID market in […]

Applied Digital, which is getting most of the attention in the RFID arena for its VeriChip Corp. subsidiary news, said it doesn’t know why it experienced a recent, sharp decline in stock price. The Delray Beach, Fla. company, which goes by the “ADSX” ticker on the NASDAQ, said it experienced a decline of more than […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced new steps to strengthen existing protections against the growing problem of counterfeit drugs. The measures, which were recommended in a report released today by the agency’s Counterfeit Drug Task Force, emphasize certain regulatory actions and the use of new technologies, like RFID, for safeguarding the integrity of […]

SupplyScape Corporation is buiding something big: secure software and expertise that will safeguard the pharmaceutical supply chain. To secure this “safety net” (and prevent fraud), the Woburn, Mass., company’s adding some hefty manpower to its Board of Advisors: Bill Hubbard, former FDA senior associate commissioner, was often called to Capitol Hill to educate government officials […]

Delray Beach, Fla.-based VeriChip Corp., under fire lately by critics of its human-implantable chips, is taking its Hugs® and HALO infant protection system overseas. Using wearable RFID tags placed on infants and mothers combined with electronic monitoring of exits, VeriChip’s systems are designed to help protect newborns from possible abduction and to help ensure mothers […]