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Hospitals plan to deploy RFID to identify patients, call up records, reduce medical errors and improve overall productivity. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the use of RFID as a way to reduce the counterfeiting of prescription drugs. Early adopters in both sectors are finding RFID can deliver operational and supply chain benefits. In this track, you will learn:
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How to reduce nurse workload with a patient ID system |
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Benefits of tracking pharmaceutical drugs electronically |
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Strategies for sharing track-and-trace data securely |
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How to improve patient safety with RFID |
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The benefits of tracking lab samples with item-level RFID tags |
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Best practices for securing track-and-trace data from RFID systems |
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Strategies hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical makers, distributors and retailers can use to choose the right technology for their needs |
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Bob Celeste
Director, Action Groups
EPCglobal |
Jim Dowden
Director, Distribution Services
Hoffmann-La Roche |
Tim Marsh
Technology Manager for
Global Package Technology
Pfizer |
Harry Ramsey
Senior Package
Development Engineer
Purdue Pharma |
Richard Schaeffer
Vice President and CIO
St. Clair Hospital |
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Health Care/Pharmaceutical Track Sessions
| Tuesday, May 2 |
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Case Study—Testing RFID at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
Patient safety is paramount in a hospital and that's a major reason RFID has been piloted at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. It installed temporary RFID chips on critical refrigerators in its intensive care unit to monitor the temperature and guard against spoilage of patient drug and blood products. The hospital also tested RFID to track key patient care equipment, and people in both private rooms and in an open-bay unit.
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Barbara Joers, Assistant Hospital Director, Operations,
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital |
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Neal Patel, M.D., Co-Medical Director, Pediatric Critical Care Unit,
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital |
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Monitoring temperature continuously with RFID |
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Tracking equipment in a hospital setting with RFID |
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Perspective on the "Track & Trace" Adoption Curve in Health
Care and Life Sciences
Since the FDA February 2004 Report, Unisys has seen significant progress in the adoption of track and trace technology by our clients and the health care and life sciences industry. In 2005, spending was at least twice the level it was in 2004, and in 2006, we anticipate a 2x to 3x increase as piloting gains momentum. There are a number of "tipping point" variables including policy decisions, trade relations, process impact, and technology performance that could drastically increase or decrease our predicted rate of adoption. We will articulate our view of the industry adoption curve for the next two years and discuss the potential impact of the key "tipping point" variables.
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Case Study—Using Mobile RFID to Prevent Medication Errors
Nurses at St. Clair Hospital use dual bar code and RFID scanners to perform the bedside medication administration. To make it mobile, the system works on wireless handheld Pocket PC devices linked to the hospital's computer network via a Wi-Fi connection. The devices prevent medication errors and save nurses time by automatically charting administrations to the electronic medical record. The dual system is being expanded to check blood transfusions and perform lab specimen labeling.
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Insights into how bar code and RFID can work together |
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Leveraging RFID technology to drive nursing adoption of patient safety systems |
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Key Considerations to Ensure a Successful RFID Implementation
As pilot projects and proof-of-concepts roll into full production systems, there are a series of issues that need to be addressed to ensure a successful RFID implementation. This session will examine the middleware solution set, and help you pick the right solution for integrating RFID data into your unique business application. Some of the topics discussed will include minimizing data volumes on the network; future-proofing your solution; integrating non-RFID devices such as barcode scanners and intelligent sensors; managing and enriching RFID data; and delivering it as actionable business information.
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HLS Industry Adoption—A Future Worth Creating
Growing concern over the increase of counterfeit drugs in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain has prompted federal and state governments to take action. Major pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, and retail pharmacies currently are undertaking and/or planning secure supply chain initiatives to develop, test, and deploy regulatory compliant solutions. Beyond compliance there is significant business value. This interactive session will cover current and anticipated business drivers, complexities such as serialized and non-serialized units, and share value opportunities from key stakeholder perspectives in the areas of policy, trade relations, process change, and technology.
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Drug Security and the Value of Data Sharing
Leading players in the pharmaceutical industry have come together to determine what approaches will be effective in securing the supply chain and how serialization with RFID can be used to automate authentication. This session examines the results of their studies and explains what challenges lie ahead for the industry.
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Jim Dowden, Director, Distribution Services, Hoffman-La Roche |
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Peggy Staver, Director, Trade Product Integrity, Pfizer |
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Strategies for serializing drugs and enabling trading partners to authenticate EPCs |
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Benefits of authenticating drug EPCs electronically |
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Is HF or UHF Best for Item-level Tagging?
RFID performs very differently at 13.56 MHz (HF) and 915 MHz (UHF). Some pharmaceutical retailers want manufacturers to use UHF tags. This session looks at each technology to see which meets companies' technical and business needs.
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Tim Marsh, Technology Manager, Global Package Technology, Pfizer |
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Thomas Pizzuto, Director, RFID Technology & Strategies,
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals |
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Harry Ramsey, Sr. Package Development Engineer, Purdue Pharma |
Moderator:
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Management Association |
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Insights into the challenges of tracking pharmaceutical items and medical devices with passive HF and UHF tags |
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Strategies for choosing the right technology for your needs |
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The Benefits of Standardized EPC Data Formats
Sharing data over the EPCglobal Network is critical to enabling track and trace, e-pedigrees and other applications in the pharmaceutical and health care industries. This session reveals the work being done to develop standardized data formats and how they will drive benefits for manufacturers, wholesales, retailers and health care providers.
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Bob Celeste, Director, Action Groups, EPCglobal |
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Ted Ng, Director, IT Pharmaceutical Group, McKesson |
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How to improve drug tracking by sharing standardized RFID data |
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Insights into data requirements and formats for sharing pharmaceutical supply chain information |
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Information Technology:
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Use RFID-enabled PDAs to identify patience and retrieve medical records |
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Share electronic pedigree data securely |
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Choose the right systems for use in challenging health care environments |
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Set up an RFID network to share data securely |
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Operations:
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Systematically choose the right RFID applications |
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Choose the right RFID tags and frequency for individual items |
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Launch automate the identification and retrieval of biological samples with RFID |
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Learn when and how to set up an internal lab to test applications |
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Use RFID to secure the supply chain |
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Benefit from tracking high-value goods internally |
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Develop track-and-trace applications |
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Choose the right technology for your supply chain applications |
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Warehouse Management:
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Improve tracking medical devices and reduce paperwork associated with movement of high-value items |
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improve inventory accuracy and losses due to theft or errors |
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Overcome challenges of deploying RFID in health care environments |
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Learn from the experience of early adopters |
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| One Event That Meets All Your Business Needs |
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See health-care/pharmaceutical case studies presented by early adopters sharing insights |
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Hear top-quality speakers detailing what works—and what doesn't |
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Touch the latest RFID products that could benefit your business |
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Network with your peers across major industries |
RFID Journal LIVE! 2006 is produced by RFID Journal, the World's RFID Authority.
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Past Corporate Participants
Abbott Laboratories American Red Cross Amylin Pharma AstraZeneca Benefitree Cardinal Health C.B. Fleet Clintrak Dade Behring DePuy Orthopaedics Eli Lilly and Co. Ethicon Endo-Surgery Genentech GlaxoSmithKline Hoffmann-La Roche Johnson & Johnson Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals MDLog Medtronic Sofamor Danek Merck & Company NACDS Novo Nordisk A/S Owens Illinois Performix Pfizer Pliva Purdue Pharma Roxane Laboratories Schering-Plough StoraEnso-Pharma Stryker Instruments University of Texas U.S. Food and Drug Administration M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Wyeth Pharmaceuticals |
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