Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry

Security and safety are two important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain and achieving the same is a challenging task. The need to secure and authenticate pharmaceutical products has increased tremendously with the emerging counterfeit product market. The motivation to introduce counter...

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Main Authors: Potdar, M., Chang, Elizabeth, Potdar, Vidyasagar
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE Computer Society Press 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17300
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Chang, Elizabeth
Potdar, Vidyasagar
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Potdar, Vidyasagar
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description Security and safety are two important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain and achieving the same is a challenging task. The need to secure and authenticate pharmaceutical products has increased tremendously with the emerging counterfeit product market. The motivation to introduce counterfeit pharmaceutical products in the supply chain could be to gain rapid economic benefits or affecting the reputation of strong brand in the pharmaceutical industry. RFID technology can be used to deter counterfeiting attempts. It can also be used in various other domains in the pharmaceutical industry. The main aim of this paper is to outline all the applications of RFID in the pharmaceutical industry. After explaining the main applications, we discuss how information hiding techniques could be used with RFID to offer efficient expiry date management, pharmaceutical tamper detection, and fraud detection and prevention.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-173002017-01-30T12:00:55Z Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry Potdar, M. Chang, Elizabeth Potdar, Vidyasagar tampered RFID safety pharmaceutical products expiry date supply chain security pharmaceutical pharmaceutical tamper detection Security and safety are two important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain and achieving the same is a challenging task. The need to secure and authenticate pharmaceutical products has increased tremendously with the emerging counterfeit product market. The motivation to introduce counterfeit pharmaceutical products in the supply chain could be to gain rapid economic benefits or affecting the reputation of strong brand in the pharmaceutical industry. RFID technology can be used to deter counterfeiting attempts. It can also be used in various other domains in the pharmaceutical industry. The main aim of this paper is to outline all the applications of RFID in the pharmaceutical industry. After explaining the main applications, we discuss how information hiding techniques could be used with RFID to offer efficient expiry date management, pharmaceutical tamper detection, and fraud detection and prevention. 2006 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17300 IEEE Computer Society Press fulltext
spellingShingle tampered
RFID
safety
pharmaceutical products
expiry date
supply chain
security
pharmaceutical
pharmaceutical tamper detection
Potdar, M.
Chang, Elizabeth
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry
title Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry
title_full Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry
title_fullStr Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry
title_full_unstemmed Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry
title_short Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry
title_sort applications for rfid in pharmaceutical industry
topic tampered
RFID
safety
pharmaceutical products
expiry date
supply chain
security
pharmaceutical
pharmaceutical tamper detection
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17300