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NuboMed Launches ICMSMS RFID Medical Supply and Medication Cabinets in South Korea

NuboMed Launches ICMSMS RFID Medical Supply and Medication Cabinets in South Korea

NuboMed has launched its ICMSMS RFID supply and medication cabinets in South Korea with the distributor Glad Alliance. The system tiers identification by item value: UHF RFID on implants and…

Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust tracks 846 beds and 1,309 medical devices with active RFID

Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust tracks 846 beds and 1,309 medical devices with active RFID

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust tags 1,309 medical devices, 846 of them beds, across its two acute hospitals and regularly locates 95% of them. Battery-powered active RFID tags report…

Italian health authority turns to RFID to stop wrong-blood transfusions

Italian health authority turns to RFID to stop wrong-blood transfusions

ASL Frosinone in central Italy will switch on Biotrac's Securtrasf transfusion safety platform from October 2026, combining RFID with barcode reading to verify patient, sample, blood product and procedure at…

Clinic Barcelona implements a pioneering material management system with RFID at their Cardiovascular Institute

Clinic Barcelona implements a pioneering material management system with RFID at their Cardiovascular Institute

Hospital Clinic Barcelona put RAIN RFID material tracking into the hemodynamics and arrhythmia rooms of its Cardiovascular Institute in September 2025, registering each device automatically and assigning it to the…

Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital

Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital

Poznań Provincial Hospital tagged 12,500 surgical instruments with UHF RFID, then found chips detaching during sterilisation and turning up in patients' wounds. Several hundred tags were damaged in nine months,…

UK/NI dementia-safeguarding NFC Find My Loved One Expands across multiple councils

UK/NI dementia-safeguarding NFC Find My Loved One Expands across multiple councils

Lichfield District Council has funded 2,000 NFC identification devices for residents living with dementia, the largest order yet in a scheme now running across at least eight UK police forces…

Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID

Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo has saved R$1.5 million a year on linen control alone, with 120,000 textile pieces individually tagged and 500 rooms inventoried by RFID reading…

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…

Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare

Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare

The NFC Forum has launched a dedicated Healthcare Special Interest Group. In the first RFID News interview, its chair Stefan Genser talks tap-to-access care, the US$30.5 billion counterfeit medicine problem,…

Case Study: Leeds Teaching Hospitals – RFID for Cancer Sample Tracking

Case Study: Leeds Teaching Hospitals – RFID for Cancer Sample Tracking

When a tissue biopsy goes missing in a pathology lab, the consequences extend far beyond inconvenience. For patients awaiting a cancer diagnosis, a lost sample can mean repeated procedures, delayed…

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