Monday, March 10, 2008

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Debate on technology "spy" RFID

Despite the huge development that is taking on the world health technology and people tracking objects by RF, RFID (for its acronym in English), the pharmaceutical employers seem to have no less clear that this is the formula chosen for the "traceability" of their drugs. The Ministry of Health is committed to the well-known Data Matrix system, two-dimensional code rather than by RFID. The pharmaceutical industry is in a hurry to control their medications as soon as possible along the entire chain of production and sale thereof. Normal, its intention is to streamline the marketing of drugs up to get the maximum benefits.



Purpose Handheld RFID

The rush to come for the crisis which is involved in the last few years and is unlikely to be resolved quickly. Therefore, pharmaceutical companies want to implement systems as quickly as possible what is called tracking, which is nothing to know where each box of medicines from the occurrence until it reaches the city.
company's intention is to prevent drug thefts, forgeries of them and the dreaded parallel imports: to buy drugs in European Union countries which are cheaper then, legally, be sold in countries with higher prices.
Tags RFID
The debate seems to drift towards you choose Data Matrix or RFID, but the issue is not trivial and the important thing is that before putting on the market these information technologies, which represent an opportunity for manipulation on all RFID, certain aspects are well defined: to know what kind of traceability background you like, what information will carry these devices, how to read this, who will be eligible and how to store them.
The logic is to clarify all this, what it does and then we choose, where appropriate, technology. Remember that drugs already carry Today barcode and that for more than a year is running a program called Seguim, sponsored by the Ministry of Health. This is a software application through which you manage data on the transactions of laboratories, warehouses and pharmacies.
Health Representatives of the PP and PSOE have expressed their preference for RFID, so soon, since it's been a general election, may clear up the mystery.
Chips as they are inserted into pets compared to the size of a grain of rice and a coin
why RFID is so interesting and why such a hurry to push it if laboratories and other methods of control of the drug? That remains to be seen, but in fact Pfizer, for example, already uses this system to send their consignments of Viagra from its headquarters in France to the United States.
What is certain is that technology threatens RFID privacy of citizens because it is a system based on electronic tags with chips that unlike the bar code that identifies a product but the same code for all units, RFID allows for each unit of product.
If you install this system on all bottles and boxes of drugs would have to see if this technology is turned off after your purchase at the pharmacy. Otherwise, the label becomes a "snitch" who can provide information about consumer product information can be valuable precisely for the sellers of medicines. It is a technology with great potential "spy", as narrated in a chapter of my book dealers health and well documented book Chips spies by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre.

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