“McCaffrey is currently performing a user-acceptance test on placebo products in cartons and blister packs as part of a pilot program ADT developed for Cephalon Inc. (Frazer, PA), an international biopharmaceuticals company. The pilot program was designed to provide end-to-end visibility for tracking branded pharmaceuticals throughout the supply chain. Cephalon is currently using bar code […]

“Sun Microsystems today announced an RFID solution aimed at the pharmaceutical supply chain. Called the Sun RFID Industry Solution for Drug Authentication, the new offering is a combination of software, hardware, and services. RFID Update spoke about it with Liz From, Sun’s pharmaceutical RFID practice lead.”

Customers at Duane Reade pharmacies are now able to pay for their drugs with “tap and go” utilizing the contactless payment solutions from American Express, MasterCard, and Visa using the eN-Touch 1000 with contactless reading technology from On Track Innovations. OTI Contactless Technology Integrated with Industry’s Leading Touch Screen and Signature Capture Terminal for “On […]

Zebra has signed a new three-year full product line agreement with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems. The full line agreement makes Zebra’s bar code, card and RFID printers as well as its supplies and service agreements available to MedAssets’ customers for a wide range of identification, tracking and access control applications. “Increasing patient safety is among […]

There’s a new RFID book generating buzz, and it’s not the good kind for the RFID industry. Just choosing the title “Spychips” tells us the publishers, editors and authors are trying to move books through controversy. I first caught this on Wired and now Slashdot has picked up a Boston Globe article about the book. […]

“ADT Security Services Inc. has been contracted by the US-based generic drug maker Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals to provide an integrated RFID solution for the tracking of prescription drug products from the point of manufacture to the retail store. The initial RFID solution provided by ADT for Mallinckrodt is a pilot project that involves tagging bottles of […]

“The international biopharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc. is to use the OAT Foundation Suite from OAT Systems as the RFID software platform for its pilot programme for tracking branded pharmaceuticals across the supply chain. For the pilot, the software will provide full visibility of Cephalon’s products as they move through owned and outsourced facilities, as well […]

The following is an excerpt of RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy. This chapter is written by EPC pioneer Sanjay Sarma1. Although the concept of radio frequency identification (RFID) is not new, the term RFID has been in use for only a couple of decades.2 In the 1980s and 1990s, long after the early use of […]

“Texas Instruments (TI) and VeriSign have announced a new model for a drug authentication platform that combines 13.56 MHz RFID technology and a public key infrastructure (PKI) for data encryption. The platform model would allow drug manufacturers to authenticate drugs at the item level and deploy a track-and-trace e-pedigree system through a two-phase deployment. “

“To be an enhancement to item-level, real-time product security, the Authenticated RFID model aims to strengthen authentication between the tag and any Authenticated RFID reader, between manufacturer and consumer. The model combines ISO/IEC standard 13.56 MHz RFID and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technologies.”