Approximately 10% of all U.S. healthcare workers will divert opioids or other controlled substances from their workplace at some point in their career.1 Drug diversion, or the illegal distribution or ...

For realizing the full potential financial value of RFID, it is important to model and measure the returns in terms of asset utilization and cost. Therefore, the model we present defines the true ...

The RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) is bringing its connected health hospital message to HIMSS this year with an all-day symposium on “The Business and Technical Essentials of RFID and RTLS ...

The bodyhacking movement — inserting electronic implants under the skin containing information or radio frequency identification technology — is starting to take hold, and such devices may soon find ...

Between January 1 and March 31, 2024, Jennifer Santillan, Specialist Pharmacy Technician at the Operating Room Pharmacy at University of Illinois (UI) Health, and colleagues, tagged nearly 30,000 ...

John Halamka, CIO at both CareGroup Inc. and Harvard Medical School, is testing radio frequency identification technology — on himself. An RFID chip that is the size of two grains of rice and encased ...

Approximately a dozen health and fitness centers have launched a passive UHF RFID-based solution from Russia’s ISBC Group that aims to manage and prevent the loss of towels. The system, which was ...

The headline reads, “The Healthcare RFID Market is Expected to Continue Growing due to New Tagging of Drugs for Anti-Counterfeiting.” As if we didn’t know that already, right? But thanks to the new ...

RFID tags on every unit of inventory allow for detailed tracking of each item, down to NDC, expiration date, lot number, and location. Our staff can access the cloud-based record of the medication ...

The headlines about shortages and disruptions in healthcare supply chains aren’t going away anytime soon. The industry needs help — and it’s here, through a combination of artificial intelligence and ...