At Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, RFID is helping the surgical department stay on track. Thanks to the passive RFID system it installed, the department has become more efficient and care has improved ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Since November 2004, the ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery unit at Heartlands Hospital, in Birmingham, England, has used radio frequency identification to identify and track more than 1,000 ...

Radio frequency ID tags have been touted as a way to keep track of patients and medical equipment, but how about a sponge left behind during surgery? This week's Archives of Surgery includes a study ...

In the future, if you’re unlucky enough to have a surgeon leaves something like a sponge inside you after surgery, a RFID chip could come to your rescue. Radio Frequency Identification Tags are ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is employed in some very interesting ways today, but using the technology to make sure surgical materials aren’t left inside patients’ chest cavities following ...

Can RFID save a dying patient, who can’t express herself to doctors? If you’re scratching your head, consider this scenario: A woman with diabetes skips her insulin, and lands in the hospital with a ...

According to the researchers, these plaster-like RFID tags can be used to analyze breathing in hospitals or at home in a way ...

Amal Graafstra snaps on a pair of black rubber gloves. "Do you want to talk about pain management techniques?" he asks. The bearded systems administrator across the table, who requested I call him ...

Radiologist Richard Ogles, MD, points to what looks like a large grain of rice visible on a mammogram of a patient with early stage breast cancer. "This," he says emphatically, "is completely changing ...