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ACADEMIA RFID PRESENTS FULL DAY 'RFID IN HEALTHCARE' SEMINAR

Academia RFID, North America's academic authority in RFID technology, presents vendor-neutral seminar to explain the benefits of RFID technology in the healthcare sector.

April 8, 2008 - Montreal, Canada

Over the past six months and throughout the development of their RFID Healthcare Applications Lab in Montreal, the academic board at Academia RFID has chosen to strategically focus on the healthcare sector by identifying important market trends in healthcare applications and approaching a network of industry experts to gather numerous RFID case studies to create a full day, vendor-neutral seminar on the benefits of RFID technology in hospitals and long term care centers.

Being presented as a pre-conference seminar at RFID Journal LIVE! 2008 by Ygal Bendavid, a research associate from the ePoly Center at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique and Harold Boeck, a Marketing Professor at the Univeristy of Sherbrooke, the RFID in Healthcare seminar offers an introduction to RFID technology, presents numerous RFID healthcare applications with live RFID demos, and helps participants build their business case for adoption.

"It's not a question of 'if' or 'when' the adoption of RFID technologies will take place in hospitals; many are already adopting. It's about selecting the proper application," said Ygal Bendavid, an academic director at Academia RFID. "What's more important is that this isn't an industry that is being secretive of its technological advances; if an application helps to better patient care, save time in operational processes and ultimately save money for hospitals: everyone benefits from the knowledge and best practices of these RFID deployments."

"We partnered with Academia RFID to produce an RFID in Healthcare seminar at RFID Journal LIVE! 2008 because we strongly believe that educating healthcare providers is critical," said Mark Roberti, Founder and CEO of RFID Journal. "The technology can not only help to cut costs and improve operational efficiencies in hospitals and clinics, but even more important, it can also help improve patient outcomes and potentially save lives."

The RFID in Healthcare Pre-Conference Seminar at RFID Journal LIVE! will be presented at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV on April 16th 2008.