RFID to manage druggs tracking

[Sylvain]

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Hello,

I am currently at UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar this summer.

I'm beginning a research project on the implementation of RFID in hospitals and its impacts on the medical professions. I have already made contact with pharmacists in several hospitals in Paris and have in mind to make a comparison with the US.

I should obtain a grant to make this comparison. I don’t have any contacts in American hospitals and wondered whether you might be able to help me on that. Moreover, I would like to share opinions, ideas about this hot topic (privacy issues...) with students like you who enter the medical professions.

If you wish to have more details about my current work, I would be please to tell you more.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,

Sylvain Bureau

 

[ZpackSux]

good friend of mine worked on RFID concept (radio frequency ID) at a hospital about 10 years ago. Too bad.....he was 10 years too early.

 

[Sylvain]

Well thank you very much for your answer.

Best and see you in 10 years🙂 for RFID 3.0

Sylvain

 

[Caverject]

Well thank you very much for your answer.

Best and see you in 10 years🙂 for RFID 3.0

Sylvain

There was a great MSNBC Dateline episode last Monday talking about this issue.

It's great technology and something that would be/should be well received by American consumers, especially with their growing concerns over tainted chinese goods. However, federal law passed a few years ago requiring the technology to be put to use is being fought by drug wholesale companies like McKesson & Cardinal. It's a very interesting controversy....good luck on your research

 

[pion]

caverject - do you have links to any further information about this controversy? Why would suppliers be against it -- doesn't it decrease their costs due to improved tracking?