POSTS TAGGED AS RFID

Battery-Free Implantable Biosensor

Tiny biosensor in the tip of a needle
Implantable biosensors are relatively large devices that have to be surgically replaced once [MORE]

Automated Chemical Synthesizer

Coffee machine synthesizer
For more than a quarter century, synthetic chemists have imagined how an automated reaction machine could take the [MORE]

Drones with RFID Scanning for Medical Supply Chain

MIT RFID via Drones
In most situations involving radio-frequency identification, a reader is a stationary appliance, and tagged pieces move past [MORE]

Highly Secure Active RFID Tags

RFID Chip
Hospitals are major consumers of RFID tags for supply chain management, but these electronic tags also serve as real [MORE]

Printing “Smart Skin”

Skin
Some stories are fetching just because they are so fetching. This is one of those, about electrical engineers at Georgia [MORE]

Sterilizing RFID Tags

Tego inlay RFID
The radio frequency identification tag is an extremely useful tool for managing everything that moves in a hospital. [MORE]

Active RFID Without a Battery

iFind Battery-Free RFID
Until now, RFID systems have come in two forms: unpowered passive tags that have to pass a near [MORE]

The Hospital that Tracks Everything

Intelligent Hospital Control Desk
This piece reviews a bevy of efficiency technologies for hospitals—altogether representing incremental rather than disruptive innovation.  As [MORE]

Evolution of RFID

EmbraceRF-app-web
Hospitals have wheelchairs stolen; nurses might hide an infusion pump so they can find it when needed; expensive surgical [MORE]

Singapore Nightclub’s Urinal Alcohol Sensor

Pee Analyzer
Imagine this: while using a nightclub urinal, a flashing message on the wall above tells a man that [MORE]

Near-Field Communications for Medical Devices

NFC BP Monitor – disassembled
This short piece is for the device designers among us who might consider near-field [MORE]

Veterans Affairs RFID Safety project

Intelligent-Insites
Hospitals have several operating rooms, and health systems can have many dozens of them. They are the chief [MORE]

RFID Monitor for Hand-Washing

RFID Handwashing Monitor
Sarasota, FL-based IntelligentM has introduced and RFID and accelerometer bracelet that doctors and nurses wear to monitor [MORE]

GE Developing Surgical Tool-Handling Robot

SURGICAL SYSTEM REVENUE
Surgery is the mainstay of hospital revenue, and most facilities have dozens of operating rooms, altogether [MORE]