Item Level RFID Tagging in Pharma Industry Drives Patient Safety ...

Item Level RFID Tagging in Pharma Industry Drives Patient Safety: The Pharmaceutical Industry Turns To RFID As One Cure for Many ...

Item-Level RFID tags on pharmaceutical products can provide benefits, in addition to RFID's role in eliminating counterfeit drugs and in increasing patient safety ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... Radio frequency identification - RFID - seen as one way to lower that cost, has its own defining characteristics. Issues of drug ...

... Drug counterfeiting may cost the worldwide pharmaceutical industry more than US$30 billion annually. Radio frequency identification - RFID - seen as one way to lower that cost, has its own defining characteristics. Issues of drug counterfeiting and patient safety differentiate it from RFID in retail markets. To minimize this wastage, and to raise the level of safety for patients, some companies are embracing RFID tagging of drug shipments at the item level. ...

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