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Blockchain in Healthcare

Block Chain
Blockchain is all about security—in data, information and perhaps even wisdom.  It is slowly moving into healthcare, as this [MORE]

Pill Bottles That Can Order Their Own Refills

3D Printed WiFi
This piece isn’t really about a self-reordering pill bottle, but it could be, based on what University of [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]

Expanding RFID

Iotera-RFID
Two pieces here discuss development in radio frequency identification tags—passive or battery-less tags developed at Cambridge University that are [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]

Implementing RFID

RFID Technology
Radio frequency identification tags—both passive and active—have long been known to cut down on rental equipment, improve cold [MORE]

Swisslog’s Quicker Picker for Supply Chain Management

Swiss Log's Click and Pick Robots
Supply chains for hospitals rival those for manufacturing plants or online retailers.  Whether it’s [MORE]

Robotic Inventory Control

Iventory-Taking Robot in Hoodie
So far, hospitals have only begun to glimpse the advantages of real time location systems and [MORE]

The Army’s Mobile EMR

Most arguments over data entry into electronic medical records pale by comparison to doing that work under combat conditions. [MORE]

Getting More Out of RTLS

Real time location systems continue to save costs in supply chain management for hospitals where ever they are installed.  [MORE]