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Oct. 29, 2008 | featured news
At Mayo Clinic, RFID Slashes Error Rate
UCSD Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment
GE Develops Passive Tag That Functions as Multiple Sensors
Dutch Forensic Institute Uses RFID to Control Crime Evidence
RFID Journal Announces Second Annual RFID in Health Care Event

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At Mayo Clinic, RFID Slashes Error Rate
A study showed that after the organization's endoscopy unit began using passive 13.56 MHz tags to identify specimen bottles, the rate of labeling errors dropped by 94 percent.
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UCSD Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment
The teaching hospital estimates the technology has saved it $70,000 annually by merely enabling it to locate its IV pumps more quickly.
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GE Develops Passive Tag That Functions as
Multiple Sensors

The company's Global Research division has come up with a design consisting of a standards-based 13.56 MHz RFID chip with an antenna coated with chemically or biologically sensitive films.
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Dutch Forensic Institute Uses RFID to Control
Crime Evidence

The agency is employing EPC Gen 2 tags to document an item's chain of custody and trigger an alarm if evidence goes awry.
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RFID Journal Announces Second Annual
RFID in Health Care Event

Leading hospitals will explain how they are using RFID to cut costs and improve patient outcomes at the conference, to be held in January 2009 in Las Vegas.
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