No more wearing purple survivor wristbands or pink breast cancer wristbands or green Darfur wristbands or any other color bands while you're a patient at Lancaster General Hospital. Starting next week ...

At Memorial Hermann hospitals, a red wristband on a patient's arm signifies an allergy to a medication. To staffers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, a red bracelet means the ...

Children's Hospital Colorado has removed gender markers from patients' wristbands as part of an effort to support their "unique gender identity." The hospital said its staff understands that it's "not ...

Hospitals have long used color-coded wristbands as a patient safety initiative. Recently, the FDA issued a letter to medical device manufacturers to caution them against using colors for device ...

The FDA is asking medical device manufacturers to avoid giving purple wristbands to patients as an indicator they have an implanted device. This is to prevent confusion with the purple wristbands ...

The tech could be used for a disposable wristband that stores and transmits health information to your doctor's smartphone. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

Japan’s Mie University Hospital and automatic-identification technology company SATO are testing SATO’s new ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID wristband to ensure its safety with patient-implantable ...

All of Delaware’s acute-care hospitals have adopted a standardized color-coded wristband system to reduce confusion and errors, according to a news release from the Delaware Hospital Authority. Under ...

Children’s Hospital Colorado will no longer identify patients as male or female on hospital wristbands. The move is intended to make “everyone who walks through our doors to feel comfortable and at ...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Missouri Delta Medical Center is joining hospitals across the state in adopting a new wristband standard to prevent medical confusion. A statewide survey by the Missouri Center for ...

Children’s Hospital Colorado has removed gender markers from patients’ wristbands as part of an effort to support their “unique gender identity.” The hospital said its staff understands that it’s “not ...