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by gautam on January 14, 2010
What is your blood group? Do you suffer from any allergies or are you currently on any kind of medication? These are some of the questions which you may not be able to answer in case you have suffered...
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by gautam on January 6, 2010
Happy New Year 2010 to all of you and I hope everybody enjoyed their holidays to the hilt. Coming back to business, for giving a boost to the healthcare sector, SenoRx is developing an RFID Tag which ...
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by gautam on August 25, 2009
I have seen swine flu or H1N1 virus snuff life out of a young person known to me and he was just one of the several hundred persons in whose case the virus was detected at a late stage making it nearl...
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by gautam on August 20, 2009
Don't be shocked if I tell you that spreading of infections is a common phenomenon in hospitals and generally the culprits are hospital employees who emerge as biggest infection carriers.
In ord...
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by gautam on June 29, 2009
Beware child abductors as here comes the only tamper detecting umbilical tag in the market. This is the TotGuard Infant Protection solution which includes an active RFID based tamper resistant umbilic...
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by gautam on May 19, 2009
A day would come when you won't have to depend on pain killers, injections and stimulators for treatment of your chronic head injury. This may sound untrue at the moment but it could become a po...
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by gautam on April 15, 2009
This RFID project has already won the people's choice award at the annual trade show of University of Victoria in Canada. Dubbed as NeedleSight, this RFID based solution which is the brainchild of...
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by gautam on January 17, 2009
Researchers at University of South Florida are working on something quite laudable. They are trying to figure out whether this RFID based system could be deployed as diagnosis tool for keeping watch o...
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by gautam on December 29, 2008
A few weeks ago I had talked about how authorities of Papua in Indonesia were seeking to pass a law which would require HIV patients to be implanted with microchips so that a watch on their sexual beh...
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by gautam on December 15, 2008
This step is expected to help dementia patients not only preserve their identities but even their dignity as adults. In order to make this a possibility elder care centers at City of Nottingham will b...
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by gautam on November 26, 2008
I would rate this as one of the weirdest use of technology if it gets the approval!!! Papua province of Indonesia is in the process of passing a law which would require HIV patients to be implanted wi...
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by gautam on October 2, 2008
This is a device which every diabetes patient would like to own and if you ask me why then it would give them freedom from the pain caused by needle pricking. Developed by team from Gentag, GAEL and S...
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by gautam on September 19, 2008
If you are a health care professional you should not miss on this!! University of Arkansas students along with their computer sciences professor Craig Thompson are working towards creating a simul...
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by gautam on June 21, 2008
In the world of color MRI technology is still black and white and as a result it cannot differentiate between cells at single cell level but all this is expected to change for the good.
In the future...
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by gautam on May 27, 2008
The stomach of a patient can be a playground for doctors where at times they tend to leave surgical instruments and valuables too. This leads to an embarrassing situation for the medical fraternity wh...
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by gautam on May 26, 2008
RFID technology is being used in healthcare since a pretty long time and the usage has been increasing over the years since it has been helping out the healthcare sector to carry out their work with e...
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by gautam on March 27, 2008
This pretty bracelet on the left would make any girl die for it but its not some ordinary piece of accessory aimed at making your wrist look good rather it's a Medical Alert Bracelet which keeps t...
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by gautam on October 10, 2007
How about having a baby through IVF which does not resemble either of the parents? Probably you will die of shock!! You must be aware of the fact that in vitro fertilization (IVF) can bring bundle o...
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by gautam on September 11, 2007
RFID seems to be always in the midst of some controversy or the other - sometimes we come across the privacy issue, then there was this security issue ushered by the virus drama and now the cyber worl...
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by gautam on August 10, 2007
Whereas on one hand modern medicine has increased the life expectancy of average man on the other hand fake medicines have been trying to offset the benefits offered by genuine medicines. WHO has labe...
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by gautam on July 6, 2007
This could become a debatable topic in the days to come. American Medical Association (AMA) stated that very soon doctors would be storing important medical information under the skin of the patients....
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by gautam on May 31, 2007
RFID won't let oesophageal reflux go unnoticed. Doctors and engineers of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre and UT Arlington have created a new system which can lead to improved monit...
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by gautam on December 21, 2006
Would you like to see your mobile phone act as a thermometer or even check your glucose levels? This is what an IP development company Gentag wants to do. The company plans to turn you mobile phones i...
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by gautam on December 14, 2006
Up till now the pharmaceutical companies was a worried lot as the RFID tags failed during the sterilization process but not now. AdvantaPure has come up with GammaTag which is resistant to gamma radia...
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by gautam on December 12, 2006
The implementation of RFID in the healthcare sector has seen a rise over the past few years. From tagging of blood to controlling diabetes, RFID seems to be playing an integral role in taking care of ...
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by Anita Campbell on November 8, 2006
An interesting white paper looks at UHF RFID item level tagging in the pharmaceutical industry. The paper is a collaborative effort by six companies including: ADT/Tyco, Alien, Impinj, Symbol, Intel a...
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by gautam on October 30, 2006
Diabetes is regarded as a slow killer and with around 230 million people suffering from diabetes this is certainly a disease which requires attention. Some of my relatives are diabetic and I know how ...
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by gautam on October 26, 2006
Rockhampton Base Hospital in Australia was in a quagmire when construction activity at their premises damaged their alarm system but then it adopted RFID for taking care of their problem. An alarm sys...
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by gautam on October 3, 2006
I believe that the biggest sin in the world would be to play with someone's life. This is what is happening at various hospitals across the globe as people engaged in the medical field continue to...
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by Anita Campbell on September 30, 2006
Active RFID is now being used to track and trace victims in a disaster situation. This is one more situation in which RFID is being used to aid the public and save lives.
Data can be collected in rea...
