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Grace Medical Center Uses ZulaFly RTLS to Prevent Food, Medication Loss

Grace Medical Center, a 123-bed hospital in the Grace Health System, has prevented $15,000 in food from spoiling since August by installing a real-time location system (RTLS) to monitor the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers, the hospital says. The system, made by ZulaFly, consists of the company's own cloud-hosted Fuzion software platform to capture data from CenTrak RFID temperature sensors.

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Third-Party Logistics: The ROI of Letting Go

The path to greater agility and control may lead outside your company. In fact, many midsized and smaller healthcare companies need to learn to let go of supply chain tasks and operations that are better handled by expert third-party logistics providers (3PLs). By focusing on what you do best, and outsourcing critical but peripheral activities to 3PLs, your business is in a better position to experience cost efficiencies that you can pass on to patients.

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New Hospital Aims to 'Transform Patient Care' With IPads and Apple TV

No one looks forward to a hospital stay, but the tech amenities at Jacobs Medical Center could make visits more comfortable for patients. With an iPad and Apple TV in every room, patients will be able to control room settings such as temperature, lighting and window shades, the hospital says. They can access games, log into their own social and entertainment apps, and control the TV. The iPad also provides access to a patient's electronic medical records, including information such as medications, caregivers' names, diagnostic data, and upcoming lab work or medical procedures.

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A Prescription for the Ills of Medical Supply Chains

Waste in the use of high-value medical devices amounts to some $5bn year. No wonder healthcare costs are soaring.

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UMass Medical Center to Use Beacons to Track Naloxone Medication

University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center says it will attach Visybl's Bluetooth beacons next month to packages of naloxone, an opioid-blocking drug, to determine whether patients discard the medication before leaving the premises and to gauge their willingness to have the medicine tracked.

Drone Company Launches Healthcare Delivery Service in Rwanda

A drone service delivering blood for transfusions has been launched by the president of Rwanda. The drones are expected to make between 50 and 150 life-saving deliveries a day to remote and inaccessible clinics across the western half of the country, according to Zipline, the company behind the technology.

Johnson & Johnson Invests $2Bn in IoT Technologies to Streamline Production

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely celebrated as a game-changing technology for field service and maintenance applications because it allows one device to "talk" to another, communicating when a machine or system could potentially degrade or fail. But what if the "breakdown" is occurring not within a facility or a production process, but within the human body?

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Big Data Could Predict Healthcare Needs, Infringe on Privacy

The future of the U.S. healthcare system could be influenced to a large extent by a company that makes weapons of war.

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Cold Chain Launches First Solid Phase Change Material for Drug Shipping

Cold Chain Technologies has launched its first solid phase change material (PCM) to maintain the integrity of drugs and vaccines during transport.

AA Cargo Seeks Pharma Handling Certification From IATA

American Airlines Cargo has signed with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to obtain certification for the handling of pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.

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Bayer Calls China 'Wild Card' for Its Consumer Health Business

More than two years after buying Merck's OTC unit and local player Dihon, bringing together three separate consumer care businesses in China remains a challenge, Bayer said.

Johnson & Johnson Sees Internet of Things as Way to Improve Healthcare

The Internet of Things has been widely celebrated as a game-changing technology for field service and maintenance applications because it allows one device to "talk" to another, communicating when a machine or system could potentially degrade or fail. But what if the "breakdown" is occurring not within a facility or a production process, but within the human body?

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