RFID cabinets end missing tissue grafts at Kansas City hospital, TrackCore case study claims
North Kansas City Hospital was losing 10 or more pieces of human tissue a month, worth about $35,941 a year, before RAIN RFID cabinets went in. A Terso Solutions and…
Vietnam hospital tracks every gown’s wash count with RFID in Japanese-funded laundry
Le Van Thinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has processed 72.6 tonnes of linen across more than 3,170 wash batches since June 2025, with RFID counting every cycle each…
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly pathology cuts single-use plastic with Indexor RFID iRack sample transport
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust sent almost 780,000 plastic specimen bags a year to incineration before its Blood Sciences labs adopted Abbott's Indexor system. Reusable iRacks carrying an RFID tag…
Zebra RFID lifts Spex warehouse picking efficiency 50%
Spex in Auckland has swapped three decades of paper picking sheets for Zebra UHF RAIN RFID handhelds and FX9600 fixed readers. One picking task fell from 15 minutes to five,…
Aksigen IVF puts RFID electronic witnessing in new Panvel fertility lab
Aksigen IVF's new 5,000 sq ft centre in Panvel, Maharashtra tags every dish and straw with RFID electronic witnessing plus biometric verification, so a mismatched sample triggers an alarm before…
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 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
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
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,…
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