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,…
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…
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,…
SATO PJM RFID Powers Singapore’s National Blood Supply Management System
Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has taken its Next-Generation Blood Supply Management System live across every public and private hospital blood bank laboratory in the country. CADI Scientific won the tender,…
Bahia public hospital tags 20,000 linen items with RFID, and Sesab plans a state-wide rollout
Hospital Geral Clériston Andrade in Feira de Santana has chipped roughly 20,000 sheets, gowns and towels, giving Bahia's health secretariat item-level visibility of linen inside a free public hospital. The…
Medvantx Opens Louisville Pharmacy Fulfilment Facility Built on Automated Conveyance and RFID-Enabled Routing
Medvantx has opened a new pharmacy fulfilment facility in Louisville, Kentucky, and the detail that will interest anyone working in RFID is buried in the automation spec: the site runs…
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