RFID

I saw this article on Medgadget and thought it might be of interest to those looking at how RFID tags can be used in Healthcare. This machine will help keep track of those pesky swabs that keep getting lost in patients.

Dave Parry was next up in the m-Health workshop and his talk was on the use of RFID tags in medicine. RFID tags were first introduced in World War II! RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. They are very low power and do not need a line of sight in the same way as a bar code.