RFID-based Medical Tray Solution Now Mobile

Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution company AmerisourceBergen has released an app-based version of its Medication Tray Solution to help hospitals more easily manage their pharmaceutical products wherever they may be within a facility. 

The updated version of the solution, with the app, coincides with the company's adoption of  RAIN Alliance standards to ensure that each UHF RFID tag has a unique, standards-based ID beginning with a company identification number (CIN).

The Alliance recently introduced the new  ISO numbering system to simplify the encoding of RFID tags and reduce what it calls tag clutter, the stray reads from various tags used by different companies for a variety of purposes. Adoption of the RAIN standard, AmerisourceBergen explains, enables greater consistency and ease of use for its customers in the healthcare market.