In order for RFID to firmly take hold in the retail sector, it’s imperative that products are tagged at the point of manufacture. Source tagging is becoming more common in apparel retailing as big retailers issue mandates to manufactures and as brands realize that they can benefit from tagging all products as opposed to partial [...]
RFID and RTLS technology is making big gains in healthcare. New solutions entering the market give healthcare providers the ability to operate more efficiently, control healthcare costs and improve patient care and safety. This week Intelligent InSites was selected to provide a software solution for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The five-year, $543 million contract [...]
Retail apparel tagging is trailblazing a path for overall RFID adoption. For every retailer like Macy’s that has gone public with its plan for deploying RFID, there are likely two more in stealth mode, preparing for a full rollout. At a recent RFID event, tag vendors revealed that there are “hundreds of millions” of tags [...]
As tagging apparel items with RFID becomes a standard practice in the retail industry, researchers are looking for the next big market for RFID. Some suggest that pharmaceuticals, particularly those that are temperature sensitive and require strict monitoring, could be the next sweet spot for RFID. A new white paper from ChainLink Research says that [...]
Johnson & Johnson this week began the process of tagging pharmaceuticals at the case level in preparation the the California e-pedigree mandate that takes effect in 2015. J&J is case tagging a single SKU at its production facility in Puerto Rico with the hope of introducing RFID into the pharma supply chain and learning from [...]
Healthcare providers are flocking to RFID in an effort to better track expensive inventories of drugs and vaccines. In an important development regarding the use of RFID with biologics, research conducted by several universities, including the Madison RFID Lab at the University of Wisconsin, has revealed that RFID is safe and suitable for use with [...]
New research from the Department of Health and Human Services suggests that healthcare providers routinely store vaccines at improper temperatures, potentially rendering them useless and placing children at risk. The report identified at least $800,000 worth of vaccine doses that may be ineffective, but the number could actually be well over $2 billion. Operating without enhanced [...]
New research from the Department of Health and Human Services suggests that healthcare providers routinely store vaccines at improper temperatures, potentially rendering them useless and placing children at risk. Operating without enhanced technology such as RFID-enabled refrigerators and freezers, 76 percent of the clinics visited by the DHHS stored vaccines at temperatures that were either [...]
This week we discovered another RFID use case that has resulted in savings of more than $1 million. Life sciences company Promega has saved more than $1.7 million by deploying RFID-enabled refrigerators and freezer solutions into its daily operations. Promega offers more than 2,000 products for use in a broad array of applications including basic [...]
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin has deployed a pilot program at one of its clinics to track and trace costly vaccines. GHC-SCW has deployed Terso Solutions’ TS029 RFID refrigerator and hosted software to better manage vaccine inventory, automate and increase efficiencies for receiving and distributing vaccines, and eliminate issues related to expiration date [...]
