RFID for healthcare

There is a call for papers for a micro edition of the open medical informatics journal - for RFID in healthcare - at http://www.bentham.org/open/tominfoj/Special-Issues.htm Off to HINZ next week (www.hinz.org.nz), It will be interesting to see if the health IT industry is moving forward in this area.

RFID and Kiwifruit

Article in the NZ herald -about the use of RFID in kiwifruit warehouses. A well established application, its particularly interesting as it integrates cameras and RFID technology and puts the readers on the forklifts.
Another bit of commercial news, DHL are running adverts in the economist magazine about using teperature sensing RFID for pharmaceutical cold-chain applications. This seems to be the technology described in this announcement, DHL seems to have blown hot and cold (!) about RFID, but this seems to be now establishes. Also in this weeks economist a lot about health technology and applications of IT and RFID. Maybe President Obama's investment in Health IT will also stimulate demand in this area. IEEE seems to think that the future is bright in that area