A Medical Device Daily

SkyeTek (Westminister, Colorado), a provider of embedded RFID solutions, said that Aionex (Goodlettsville, Tennessee) has adopted its RFID reader technology to streamline delivery of patient care in hospitals.

Aionex is leveraging SkyeTek’s M1 HF SkyeModule to RFID-enable emergency rooms, operating rooms, and intensive care units. The readers provide Aionex’s Patient Response Platform (PRP) with the information it needs to monitor patient care, authenticate hospital staff members, and track process efficacy, the company said.

The Aionex PRP is a communication and transaction software product designed to rapidly communicate and document information from various sources to specific personnel responsible for delivering patient care and services. Aionex said it relies on infrared technology for staff, but needed RFID for patient wristbands to improve the overall usability of the platform. The company said it has been working with SkyeTek to develop its RFID-enabled PRP since last year.

SkyeTek develops readers that serve as intelligent edge devices and web services intended to bind policies to tagged items.

Aionex said its technologies connect thousands of patients with caregivers and hospital staff every day.

In other contract news: North American Scientific (NAS; Chatsworth, California) reported that Core Oncology (Santa Barbara, California) has chosen it as its exclusive supplier of Palladium (Pd)-103 brachytherapy seeds for use in the soft-tissue brachytherapy market.

NAS will supply its Prospera Pd-103 brachytherapy seeds to Core Oncology for global distribution. The agreement has an initial term of three years.

Core Oncology develops brachytherapy delivery techniques and services, and supplies Pd-103 seeds for low-dose prostate brachytherapy treatment.

North American Scientific products are designed to provide physicians with tools to treat various types of cancers.