Drug companies, retailers adopting RFID for drugs
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Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are the first drugmakers willing to take the plunge and use radio frequency identification technology to protect their US drug supply chains from counterfeiters.
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Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, said it would begin shipments of the tagged medication this week. Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, said it would begin shipping RFID-tagged bottles by the end of next year.
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With the countdown for compliance with radio-frequency identification mandates from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and others&#39; closing in, concern is growing that supplies of the necessary
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When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."
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IBM (Quote, Chart) has launched a suite of RFID (define) services for mid-market businesses and industrial sectors. The new services are geared for companies that typically employ 1,000 workers or less.
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RFID World attendees were interested in flexing the uses of RFID beyond tagging pallets in the stock room, including using RFID with cell phones to read blood sugar levels or to pay for fuel.
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The impact radio-frequency identification has throughout an entire supply chain is top of mind for a number of companies experimenting with the technology.
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Viagra, Oxycontin and some AIDS (news - web sites) drugs will be among the first to carry radio chip tracking devices under a new Food
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled a collection of new services designed to bring the benefits of radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial firms and mid-size businesses. The goal is to help smaller companies comply with mandates to adopt the technology by  Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the Department of Defense and other organizations.
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Today the Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for manufacturers to use tiny radio antennas on prescription drug shipments to track their products from the assembly line to the pharmacy.
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A Singaporean IT products distributor is introducing radio tags to track inventory and delivery.
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(Source: AT&T)  Advancements in radio frequency identification technology are causing big changes in supply chain management.
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RFID tags, the dime-sized devices that can track inventory from the factory to the store, are being embraced as one of the hottest of new technologies. But Patrick J. Sweeney II likens most available applications of RFID, or radio frequency identification, to the user-unfriendly personal computers of the 1980s: a blank screen and a command prompt.
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After setting up an initial RFID test center in Dallas last May, Sun Microsystems Inc. will follow up with a similar facility somewhere in Scotland, said Vijay Sarathy, group marketing manager for RFID at Sun.
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Ziff Davis - HP is working with specialists BearingPoint and OATSystems on RFID for Wal-Mart compliance and other retail implementation. Meanwhile, the major IBM competitor is building "domain knowledge" about RFID in manufacturing.
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The radio frequency tag approved by the Food and Drug Administration is part military dog tag and part high-tech smart chip. The chip inside is encoded with the type and date of the surgery and the surgeon&#39;s name.
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Pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma LP is working closely with law-enforcement agencies to use radio-frequency identification technology to protect shipments of OxyContin, Purdue&#39;s painkiller drug that&#39;s a frequent target for theft.