Filed in archive Healthcare
by gautam on May 30, 2006
Here is another application of RFID in the field of healthcare. Municipal hospitals in Bielefeld would be testing beds with integrated RFID chips for the purpose of improving the deployment and...
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Filed in archive Healthcare
by gautam on April 26, 2006
The application of RFID seems to be endless. In one of our earlier posts we talked about RFID locks and just recently we talking about RFID purse. Now Casio has come up with something for fitness...
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Filed in archive Healthcare
by gautam on March 24, 2006
RFID which is already going through a virus scare would now be used in China for fighting bird flu virus. Smart-tek has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with SES Investment for marketing...
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One of the most interesting -- and in my opinion most beneficial uses of RFID -- is in medical applications, as noted in this article in the Washington Post: Using the system, emergency-room doctors...
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Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson comes out and promotes Americans getting chips implanted under their skin in order to alert healthcare workers about medical...
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The other day a reader of this blog asked a thought-provoking question: "If we can keep track of our hammers via RFID, why can't we keep track of sexual predators?" Well, perhaps the...
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Have you heard about the CIO of Harvard Medical School who has had an RFID chip implanted in his arm? Over at ZDNet you'll find a video interview with him. I hadn't realized the extent to...
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Out of the U.K. comes a report about scientists considering the adoption of RFID to avoid heartbreaking mistakes (?) when using in vitro fertilization (definition). New Scientist magazine has the...
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Just in case you thought there couldn't possibly be another use for RFID: "Shaken by scandals involving the black-market sale of body parts, University of California officials are considering...
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RFID may be coming to a dentist near you. Mario points me to this thought-provoking article by Roland Piquepaille: "If you live in France, and soon elsewhere in Europe and in the U.S., and if you...
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VeriChip has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for implant in humans for medical purposes. The chip will help track medical conditions, prescriptions, treatment history, health...
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One outgrowth of all the advances in health care is an overabundance of medical waste. Cases of illegal dumping of medical waste are growing. IBM aims to help deal with that problem by usig RFID to...
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Pharmaceutical companies will be using more RFID than the consumer packaged goods industry in 18 months. That's according to a Meta Group study, as reported in Information Week. Now this is a...
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Via Wired.com comes word of two new products designed to allow senior citizens to remain at home longer, without the need to enter nursing homes. The products are Intel's Caregiver's Assistant...
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Georgetown University Hospital is conducting a study with 100 blood transfusion patients, comparing bar-code technology with RFID technology to track transfusions from donor to patient. The project...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is backing RFID as a way to stamp out prescription drug counterfeiting. RFID tracking technology would create an electronic pedigree that follows the drug...
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