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(EquityBites Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Information Technology company IBM (NYSE:IBM) said on Wednesday that Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices, has selected IBM's sensor technology as the foundation for BeepN'Track, Implanet's new service that traces the movement of its products.

With this use of this IBM technology, financial terms of which were unavailable, Implanet will now be able to trace its products, including knee and hip implants, across its supply chain to hospitals.

The company's BeepN'Track service uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to track medical devices from Implanet to hospitals. The information stored on the tags is gathered by IBM's WebSphere Sensor Events software and transmitted to IBM's InfoSphere Traceability Server software.