RFID, GPS Technology and Electronic Surveillance

Learn How the Latest RFID Systems Are Helping Health-Care Providers Improve Patient Care While Cutting Costs

January 1, 2009

RFID Journal - RFID Journal will host its fourth RFID in Health Care event, co-located with the fourth Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management, on January 28, 2010, at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

RFID in Health Care is the one event where you can hear leading health-care providers and early adopters share real-world case studies that reveal the business benefits of RFID technology.

Learn how hospitals and health care organizations are using RFID to:

* Improve patient monitoring and safety
* Increase asset utilization with real-time tracking
* Boost revenue with automated billing
* Reduce medical errors by tracking medical devices
* Enhance supply-chain efficiencies
* And so much more!

Plus, meet the leading technology companies and see their latest solutions.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn how you can use RFID to cut costs and improve patient outcomes.

RFID Journal and RFID in Healthcare Consortium to Host RFID in Health Care Seminar

During RFID Journal LIVE! 2010, leading hospitals and clinics will reveal ways to improve patient outcomes while cutting costs, automating payments and reducing capital expenditures.

December 17, 2009

RFID Journal - RFID Journal today announced that it is partnering with the RFID in Healthcare Consortium to host a one-day RFID in Health Care preconference seminar at the eighth annual RFID Journal LIVE! conference and exhibition, to be held on Apr. 14-16, 2010, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

"Health-care companies are seeing real benefits from deploying real-time location systems, so we're pleased to be working with the RFID in Healthcare Consortium to educate hospitals and clinics on how they can benefit from these RFID systems," says Mark Roberti, RFID Journal's founder and editor. "As an added benefit, attendees to this seminar will be able to see all of the providers of systems for health-care RFID solutions in one place."

Motorola Embeds RFID Tags in Its Handheld Computers

The MC3100 series comes with a built-in EPC Gen 2 passive UHF tag, enabling users to keep tabs on the devices, as well as prevent their unauthorized removal from a company's premises.

November 11, 2009

RFID Journal - Starting with its newest bar-code scanning handheld computers, the MC3100 series, Motorola will be embedding an RFID tag in the handle of every portable handheld computer model it releases.

The tags will enable the company's customers to use an RFID reader to determine each device's location in a store's backroom, or at a distribution center (DC). In this way, if a computer is misplaced, a handheld reader could be carried through a warehouse to locate the device—or , if someone takes a computer through an RFID portal installed at exit or dock doors, a user could be notified that it is leaving the premises...

RFID Chip, Livestock Tag Developed for Brazilian Market

December 24, 2009

RFID Journal - Ceitec S.A., a Brazilian firm focused in the development and production of products for the RFID, wireless communications, and digital multimedia market segments, has announced a new RFID tag designed for identifying and tracking livestock.

The company first developed the DO BOI livestock-identification chip, a passive 125 kHz RFID chip complying with the ISO 11784 and 11785 standards, and then created an RFID tag using that chip.

The tag is designed to electronically track and collect data about a herd, thus enabling farmers to monitor cattle from birth through slaughter, including information about vaccinations and health records.

According to the company, the chip can be read while cattle are moving, and the data collected from the tags can be sent from interrogators (either handheld or fixed in portals, or gates) to back-end systems via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or serial cable connections.

The city of Minas Gerais launched field trials of the Do Boi RFID device, the final step before sample production. The RFID tags were applied to 500 cows on the Santa Rita Experimental Farm, a unit of the Agricultural Research Corporation of Minas Gerais. The farm is the first to receive the RFID tags. In all, Ceitec indicates it plans to test 10,000 RFID tags on other farms in various regions of Brazil.

"The completion of Ceitec's first chip design offers proof of Brazil's ability to produce advanced microelectronics within our borders," said Sergio Rezende, the nation's minister of science and technology, in a prepared statement. "After chip production starts to ramp up in the company's state-of-the-art semiconductor fab, it will help to fulfill our goal of making technology a more prominent part of our country's economy."

The company plans to produce the chip at its Porto Alegre plant, where its engineers developed all of the intellectual property for this RFID chip design.