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…
RFID Standards and Protocols: EPC Gen2, ISO 18000, and Beyond
EPC Gen2, formally ISO 18000-63, is the reason a tag from one manufacturer answers a reader from another anywhere in the world. A guided tour of the standards stack behind…
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…
RFID and GS1 Standards: Why Global Data Standards Matter
Every RFID tag carries a unique identifier, but without a common language to interpret that data, the information is only useful within a single organisation. This is exactly the problem…
Hospital Clinic Barcelona RFID System – 20 Months In
When Hospital Clinic Barcelona began exploring RFID technology back in 2019, few could have predicted just how fundamentally it would reshape the way one of Spain’s most prestigious hospitals manages…
Bluesight and Pfizer to Provide Source-Tagged RFID Medications to Hospital Pharmacies
Bluesight has announced a strategic partnership with Pfizer Global Hospital & Biosimilars that will bring source-tagged RFID medications to hospital pharmacies across the United States. The collaboration integrates Pfizer’s SmartDose…
Case Study: Plymouth NHS Trust – Tracking 60,000 Medical Assets
Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital, one of the largest acute hospitals in the South West of England, has transformed its medical asset management through a large-scale RFID deployment. The project, built around…
Altinteg introduces the AI-Ready RFID Architecture (AIRA) Framework
Altinteg Technology Solutions has published a new open framework designed to bridge a critical gap between RFID infrastructure and artificial intelligence in grocery and food supply chains. The AI-Ready RFID…
SML RFID Launches GB25U8 Inlay, the First GS1 Spec H Inlay
SML has announced the launch of the GB25U8, a new UHF RFID inlay that it says is the industry’s first product certified to GS1 Tag Performance Specification H. The release…
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