The RFID in Healthcare Consortium held its first meeting Tuesday at RFID World 2008 in Las Vegas as part of an effort to educate the healthcare industry on global deployments and best practices for RFID technologies. It also will work to provide consistent information to consumers, businesses, and regulators.
The by-invitation-only meeting included industry veterans Ken Baker, NewAge AdvantaPure CEO; Daniel Sands, Solstice Medical president and CEO; John C. Shoemaker, Shipcom Wireless president; and John Stevens, Visible Assets chairman. Chairs of the Foundation's Life Sciences Advisory Board, professor Daniel Engels, University of Texas at Arlington; Dr. James Fonger, an adult cardiothoracic surgeon; and Paul Rudolf, M.D. of Arnold & Porter, LLP will participate in organizing the consortium, too.
ThingMagic announced a full line-up of partner support at the RFID World 2008 conference in Las Vegas this week. Jamison Door, Lexmark, PANMOBIL, Seeonic and Venture Research showcased integrations of ThingMagic Mercury RFID technology for supply chain portals, RFID labeling, and inventory tracking and asset awareness. The technology demonstrations included Jamison Door's RFID portals used to track goods during the manufacturing process and throughout the supply chain. Lexmark's RFID UHF Laser Option, a printer drawer with an embedded RFID reader that enables customers to use existing T64x laser printers to print packing slips, shipping labels, and program RFID tags simultaneously on a single label, PANMOBIL's SCANNDYgun handheld bar code reader, Seeonic's item-level inventory management system SmartWatch, and offerings from Venture Research, a supply chain systems development firm.
RF Code says it has received certification from IBM Tivoli for its Zone Manager integration module that provides real-time physical asset inventory, location information and wireless sensor information to IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT. The solution demonstrated at RF Code's booth at RFID World this week provides an active RFID tracking application for healthcare, data center asset tracking, distributed asset tracking for disperse organizations, just-in-time ordering solutions, personnel asset tracking for security, environmental monitoring and more.
Wireless Dynamics introduced the OtterBox 1951 rugged enclosure for use with the SDiDTM product family and the MotorolaTM MC35. The OtterBox 1951 is part of the DefenderTM family of enclosures. The design has 3 layers of protection, including a thermal clear cover to protect against scratching, dust and water; polycarbonate for scratch-resistant camera lens, and silicone skin to absorb bump and shock.
Blue Spark Technologies, which makes printed batteries, says Sealed Air has integrated its Blue Spark thin, flexible batteries into its TurboTag RFID-enabled time and temperature monitoring and data logging solution. The applications lets retail and consumer goods companies ensure perishable items such as meat and dairy products, fresh produce, frozen and refrigerated foods, and pharmaceuticals are kept at the perfect temperatures. |
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