
Pharmaceuticals


Pharmaceutical Company Leverages RFID Tags for Medical Products
Hanmi Pharmaceutical has adopted an RFID item-level tagging system for its entire range of products, using more than 60 million […]
Pharma/Health Care: Preparing for Serialization and Visibility Within the U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
GS1 Healthcare US is driving the adoption and implementation of GS1 standards to improve patient safety and supply chain efficiency. […]
The Case for RFID: A Pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Perspective
Although the California State Board of Pharmacy has delayed implementing its e-pedigree requirement until 2015 and the U.S. Food and […]
Fighting Counterfeiting With “Unclonable” RFID Chips (Part 2)
Counterfeiting is a huge global problem. Some estimates put the losses at more than $600 billion per year. This problem […]
Purdue Pharma Combats Counterfeiting and Diversion With RFID
Purdue Pharma was one of the first companies to implement large-scale item-level RFID tagging. In 2008, its RFID team implemented […]
RFID Increases Profits for Pharmaceutical Distributor
Argentine pharmaceutical distribution company Axxa Pharma reports that it has seen a 40 percent rise in profit margins since it […]
Why RFID Alone Does Not Equal Visibility
RFID is a revolutionary, enabling technology, but by itself does not provide item visibility. To have such visibility, you must […]
The Benefits of Using RFID to Monitor the Temperature of Drugs
Abbott Labs recently completed tests intended to prove the efficiency and accuracy of tracking temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products from manufacturing through […]