“In some cases, it will be possible to achieve a one-year payback on RFID by 2008, according to DiamondCluster International, a Chiago-based management consulting firm. The firm compared various estimates for RFID market growth against conservative return on investment scenarios to reach this conclusion. “Companies in the health services, particularly pharmaceutical drug makers, high-value consumer […]

“A Food and Drug Administration task force is scheduled next month to make recommendations for speeding the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to track prescription drugs from manufacture to retail purchase. A track-and-trace requirement has been on the books since 1987, but the FDA has postponed the effective date because of concerns that […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publishing Whether it’s the rising cost of prescription drugs or more sophisticated technology and funding for counterfeiters, incidents of drug counterfeiting have skyrocketed in the United States. Drug counterfeiting now costs the Food and Drug Administrations more than $30 billion annually, a number so great that the agency is […]

“Eagle Global Logistics has installed technology to secure sensitive financial customer data in transit on the request of a large U.S. bank, a company executive said Monday. The Web-based application from ARGO Tracker Corp., which designs asset tracking platforms, collects data wirelessly through 802.15.4 ZigBee wireless protocol to continually monitor and track the location and […]

“In the USA, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has begun distributing a medicine tagged with RFID technology as part of an initial pilot project to help protect patient safety. The trial is likely to be followed by other similar programmes if it is considered successful. The tags are to be placed on all bottles of Trizivir (an HIV […]

By David C. Wyld, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications Robert Malone, Editor of Inbound Logistics magazine, recently commented that, “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to discover that pharmaceuticals are a prime candidate for the use of RFID in our new era of high security.” In recent months, there have been significant developments in the pharmaceutical […]

Fujitsu has released a new smaller and faster version of its palm vein scanner. The scanner, which won several awards in its first iteration, now providers a faster authentication rate about half the time of the original model, and is now about one-fourth the size of its predecessor, meaning greater flexibility and ease of implementation […]