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Hospitals roll out RFID
News More than 50 hospitals are using smart wireless or barcoded wristbands and tags to give them an instant snapshot of the location of medicines, patients and sterile equipment.silicon.com Public Sector Hospitals across England are keeping track of... [09 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up And this weekend's O2 Wireless festival promises that some lucky punters will have access to luxury toilets with the help of contactless NFC wristbands. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed t-shirt... [04 Jul 2008]
Beijing Union College Hospital Enhances Productivity and Quality of Medical Services With Motorola's Enterprise Mobility Solution
White Paper Motorola's Enterprise Mobility solution deployed at Beijing Union College Hospital included the use of patient barcode ID wristbands to accurately identify patients and the MC50 - Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA), to enable access to patients... [02 Jul 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo O2 will allow selected guests to access luxury toilets by scanning contactless NFC wristbands on special readers. The wristbands will be given out at random by O2 Angels. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon... [26 Jun 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News RFID tagged wristbands are currently used in some hospitals to ensure correct procedures are carried out on patients. Radio frequency ID RFID) technology can interfere with medical equipment, according to a study published in The Journal of the... [25 Jun 2008]
It's All in the Wrist: Improving Patient Safety With Bar Code Wristbands
White Paper Wristbands can be incorporated into physical security systems, which is often done by using wristbands with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. RFID chips can be embedded within bar code wristbands to provide an invisible, unobtrusive form... [10 Apr 2008]
Precision Dynamics Corporation Primes for Growth With Robust Enterprise Solution
White Paper With over 50 years of service and innovation, Precision Dynamics Corporation (PDC) is the global leader in identification wristbands and advanced ID solutions. PDC's legacy systems were unable to support strategic objectives, including planned... [30 Jun 2007]
Nurses want tablets on repeat prescription
News The device allows clinicians to identify patients using RFID wristbands and then access records and test results or arrange referrals - all from the bedside. A Manchester hospital has successfully trialled a new tablet PC designed specifically for... [21 Feb 2007]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News Visitors to the hospitals are given RFID-chipped wristbands to wear which are scanned by medical personnel to bring up their records and make sure the patients are given the correct dosages of drugs. Japanese authorities decided to start chipping... [30 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up Wristbands have been discussed, however there is a chance that before committing an act of MASS MURDER AT 30,000 FEET these aforementioned terrorists may have the audacity to remove said wristband. What a week! [20 Oct 2006]
Air travellers to be RFID tagged?
News Brennan said RFID-tagged wristbands could be used but these can be taken off and swapped between individuals. A new RFID tag has been designed and its inventors claim it could improve airport security by tracking passengers as they mingle in the... [13 Oct 2006]
Hospital aims to cut operating errors with RFID tags
News The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust is spending an estimated £300,000 on a pilot of the system, which will use RFID-tagged wristbands containing a digital picture and information about the patient. [21 Feb 2006]
RFID comes to European hospitals
News Patients will wear tagged wristbands, which will be scanned by hospital staff using PDAs or tablet PCs connecting to patients' data using a WLAN. Patients will also be able to check their own records by scanning their wristbands using information... [21 Apr 2005]
Jacobi Medical Center Uses RFID Wristbands for Greater Accuracy and Convenience
White Paper Siemens Business Services integrated the necessary software with the hospital's portable computers and developed both the software to print patient information on the RFID wristbands and the user interface for reading them. [23 Dec 2004]
Theme park RFIDs kids for safety
News A Florida theme park is helping parents keep track of their kids - by giving them wristbands embedded with high-tech radio signal technology. Wannado City issues the radio frequency identification (RFID) wristbands to all visitors as part of... [15 Sep 2004]
