RFID in Healthcare: Patient Safety, Asset Tracking, and Beyond
Closed-loop medication systems built on RFID wristbands have cut drug administration errors by more than 50 per cent in published studies. From tagged surgical sponges that prevent retained instruments to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Twig Fertility uses RFID to bring a New Standard of Patient-Centric Fertility Care to Vancouver
Twig Fertility has opened its first British Columbia clinic in Vancouver, bringing RFID-based witnessing technology to the forefront of patient safety in reproductive medicine. The facility, which launched on March…
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