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
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
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 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
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
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
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…
GUARDIAN RFID Launches Medication Manager to Tackle Drug Administration Errors in Correctional Facilities
GUARDIAN RFID has released Medication Manager for its Command Cloud platform, a new module that uses RFID-based identity verification to reduce medication administration errors in jails and prisons across the…
Researchers use RFID technology to open up new possibilities for measuring respiratory function
Researchers affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and the University of Gothenburg have developed a new contactless method for measuring breathing movements using RFID technology. The approach…
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