Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Teams of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists were tasked with the painstaking duty of refilling kits, verifying expiration dates, and maintaining extensive paper records for every medication vial, bottle, syringe, or IV infusion. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Sometimes, however, he encounters hurdles in prescribing the pen, as insurance companies at times have balked at its higher price tag. “I Many will not pay for the pen unless there is a mechanical or visual reason why the patient cannot use the vial and syringe.”. Unfortunately, it is insurance companies that drive that decision.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 28, 2015

How many people with diabetes forgot about a vial of insulin in a hot car or in the outside pocket of a backpack until it was too late? To combat this, Germany-based solar energy engineer Amin Zayani has designed a portable, dog tag-sized device that tracks the fluctuating storage temperature of a medication’s environment.

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HIStalk Interviews

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Our system knows every single vial and every single place. We’re working on getting drugs already tagged to the hospital and being able to have full traceability in the supply chain to allow those hospitals, again, to be safer, be more efficient, and lower their drug spend. Do you have any final thoughts?

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