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Dec. 08, 2021

Recent RFID & Pharma Announcements

We have been heartened by the growing trend of pharmaceutical manufacturers and RFID industry partners announcing tagged drug products, serialization technologies, and quality programs aimed at increasing the use of tagged unit-of-use medications. We’re excited to see new parts of the industry begin to embrace the longstanding customer demand for these value-add products. DoseID believes that serialized unit-of-use medications, tagged
Dec. 06, 2021

What are RAIN and GS1?

With all the talk of RFID and pharmaceuticals, you’ll frequently see mentions of RAIN and GS1. Here’s a quick primer on those terms and a description of how they relate to UnitVisID. RAIN RAIN is a marketing organization and global alliance promoting the use of GS1’s UHF Gen2 protocol. The term “RAIN” has become synonymous with “UHF Gen2” when describing
Sep. 21, 2021

[Podcast] Vision and Visibility: RFID’s Emergence in Healthcare

Recently, DoseID’s president, Tim Kress-Spatz, discussed RFID’s promise in downstream supply-chain tracking, the importance of interoperability in tracing drugs, reducing the inventory management burden for hospitals, and more on The Pharmaceutical Commerce Podcast. This wide ranging discussion included: Increase in Market Demand for RFID RFID (radio frequency identification) tagged medications are gaining traction again in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Initially,
Apr. 29, 2021

DoseID joins AIM and RAIN as an Association Partner for the Engage Again virtual conference

DoseID, the first member driven industry Alliance for the use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in the healthcare space, is excited to be an Association Partner for AIM and RAIN’s Engage Again virtual conference. The conference, taking place virtually on May 5-6, 2021, will focus on the Automatic Data Collection industry and will bring together speakers and exhibitors to cover
Nov. 12, 2020

Why Your Organization Should Join UnitVisID (formerly DoseID)

This month, DoseID holds our first member meeting on November 19th. As a pharmaceutical industry Alliance focused on RFID-enabled drugs and systems, DoseID includes representatives from drug manufacturers, pharmacy automation vendors, RFID inlay manufacturers, label makers, and healthcare providers. A major goal of DoseID is to bring the sometimes fragmented pharmaceutical industry together to unify around the best approach to