RuBee is the project name for a new RFID technology. Developed by Visible Assets, and now a candidate for anointing by IEEE as the P1902.1 standard, RuBee is or is not going to replace “traditional” RFID like the EPC Global standard. Here are some of the technical details:
RuBee is a bidirectional, on-demand,
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RFID industry veteran, Brad Sokol, will be introducing “A Roadmap to Medical Tool Pedigree” tomorrow at the RFID Applications conference in Washington DC. Targeting things like surgical instruments, disposables and other items used in the delivery of care, Sokol aims to track (dare we say “automate”) the workflow around sterilization, use and disposal to minimize […]
Health and wellness vendor FitSense, has announced the release of their Universal BodyLAN (the UBM), a personal area network supporting wireless sensor communications with gateways and medical devices. You can find some technical BodyLAN info here.
The UBM is a low-cost, ultra low-power wireless chipset that is orders
of magnitude less power than Bluetooth and Zigbee. The […]
MX Magazine quotes me on this issue that won't go away. Here's my top 5 list on “what is it about unique identifiers and medical devices?”
Post market surveillance of medical devices will improve patient safety (and is a good thing)
Unique identifiers for medical devices won't improve patient safety
Medical devices already have unique identifiers, they're called […]
Motorola announced today that it will acquire Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion (press release). Recent accounting irregularities, and the resulting SEC fines have sent Symbol reeling for the past couple years. There have been recent rumors that Symbol was up for sale.
Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates in Northboro, Mass., said
he was concerned […]
Data security is not rocket science, but it's one of those things that takes detailed focus to get the right technology, policy and procedures in place. And it seems that the stories about lost laptops with tens or hundreds of thousands of patient records are not just some fluke or exceptional occurrence.
Sadly, this report notes […]
A patient in the Vista Medical Center (Lake County, IL) emergency department waiting room died of a heart attack while waiting to be seen. The patient reportedly presented with shortness of breath and chest pain, was briefly triaged, and expired some time during a subsequent 2 hour wait to be seen by physicians.
In a startling […]
The IHE PCD (that's the Integrated Health Enterprise, Patient Care Device) working group has extended the deadline for vendors to sign up to participate in the medical device Connectathon at the next HIMSS meeting. So far, there are four (4) vendors who have committed to sending data and two (2) committed to receiving data.
This […]
I came across the Pingbuzz weblog while doing some research. The site offers an interesting amalgam of posts on wireless mobile devices for health care, fitness and wellness applications. Check em out.
A recent post on Pingbuzz that caught my eye - a somewhat questionable patent application for a combo patient worn monitor and RFID (press […]
MedGadget has an update on Hoana's Passive Sensor Array technology measures heart rate and respiration without any patient connected sensors. Hoana has updated their website considerably since my last post about them (it seems there's been some management changes as well).
Field-testing of the initial prototype demonstrated accurate, safe,
reliable and convenient measurements of heart and […]
