RFID Medicine Clinical Trial Passes Data through Phone

RFID enabled telemonitoring will support the clinical trial of Novartis drug in the treatment of leukemia. The drug monitoring process is called eMedonline. ...

... "Medication data read from a RFID smartlabel on the medication package is collected wirelessly by the phone in real time and helps verify that patients are taking the right drug at the right time while monitoring patient reported outcomes. Data from the phone is sent wirelessly to a secure server ... " ...

Via DOTmed: Telemonitoring

Xerox Printable RFID Silver Bullet

Xerox develops a new silver ink that the company will commercialize for low-cost manufacturing of printable electronics. ...

... "Printable electronics offers manufacturers a very low-cost way to add intelligence or computing power to a wide range of surfaces such as plastic or fabric. This development will aid the commercialization of new applications such as smart pill boxes that track how much medication a patient has taken or display screens that roll up to fit into a briefcase. " ...

Via Xerox: Replace Silicon Circuits with Low-Cost, Durable Plastic

RFID Medication Identification

Kaiser Permanente pilots emerging technologies for application in patient safety. ...

... "The touch-screen systems are based on a reference design from Intel which wrote middleware to link the Windows-based computers to peripherals such as RFID and bar code readers to identify medications at a patient's bedside. " ...

Via EETimes: Kaiser lab

RFID Patient Wristband Improves Care

Patients pilot the use of RFID technology to administer medicines at Halifax Health Medical Center. ...

... "This RFID wrist band assists nurses and in health care by automating the process of administering patient medication. " ...

Via Sify: Bartronics RFID

DHL RFID Pharma Temperature Controlled Logistics Innovation Recognized

DHL is recognized for innovative application of RFID technology in the pharma supply chain. ...

... "Today's pharmaceutical products generally consist of temperature-sensitive ingredients that can lose their effectiveness when they are placed in an environment that is too cold or too hot. The DHL Innovation Initiative developed an inventive solution to monitor temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products during transport. RFID sensor tags made by the development partner Infratab monitor the temperature of pharmaceutical shipments. The stored measurement data can be read by a RFID reader without physical contact using radio waves. In the process, the shipment does not have to be opened. The link to the database is handled by solutions created by IBM, one of the global innovation partners of the DHL Innovation Initiative. Thanks to the new service, pharmaceutical companies can react to temperatures that exceed or fall below limits even while the shipment is still being transported.

The battery-powered memory chip is equipped with an integrated alarm function that records each time that the temperature rises above or falls below predetermined limits. In the future, unusable medications can be removed more quickly from the supply chain. Based on the temperatures to which the shipment was subjected, the sensor chip also determines the individual expiration date for medications. As a result, physicians and pharmacists can distribute the medication whose expiration date comes first, preventing medications from going bad after they have left the transport chain. " ...

Via DHL: TEMPERATURE-MONITORED PHARMACEUTICAL LOGISTICS WITH RFID