Benefits of Using RFID Technology
1. Reduce Human Errors
RFID assigns a unique ID to each item, enabling automated identification and tracking without manual input. This reduces data entry mistakes, prevents medication errors, and ensures critical items aren’t misplaced.
2. Increase Patient Safety
RFID enhances safety by accurately identifying and matching medications, surgical items, and lab samples to the correct patient, ensuring the right care is delivered at every step of the process.
3. Avoid Mix-Ups
RFID provides real-time tracking and a continuous digital trail for medical assets and specimens, ensuring the right item is used for the right patient, which is essential in labs and surgical settings.
4. Enhance Operational Efficiency
From locating equipment instantly to automating inventory checks, RFID streamlines workflows, reduces search times, and improves staff productivity in high-demand environments like hospitals and diagnostic labs.
5. Combat Counterfeiting
Each product can be serialized with a unique identifier (UID), allowing RFID systems to verify authenticity at every stage of the pharmaceutical supply chain. This helps prevent counterfeits and protects patients and brands from harmful or fake medications.
6. Improve Supply Chain Visibility
Real-time RFID tracking enables complete transparency of medical products, from manufacturing to point-of-care. It ensures regulatory compliance, proper inventory levels, and timely response to storage or delivery issues.
1. Reduce Human Errors
RFID assigns a unique ID to each item, enabling automated identification and tracking without manual input. This reduces data entry mistakes, prevents medication errors, and ensures critical items aren’t misplaced.
2. Increase Patient Safety
RFID enhances safety by accurately identifying and matching medications, surgical items, and lab samples to the correct patient, ensuring the right care is delivered at every step of the process.
3. Avoid Mix-Ups
RFID provides real-time tracking and a continuous digital trail for medical assets and specimens, ensuring the right item is used for the right patient, which is essential in labs and surgical settings.
4. Enhance Operational Efficiency
From locating equipment instantly to automating inventory checks, RFID streamlines workflows, reduces search times, and improves staff productivity in high-demand environments like hospitals and diagnostic labs.
5. Combat Counterfeiting
Each product can be serialized with a unique identifier (UID), allowing RFID systems to verify authenticity at every stage of the pharmaceutical supply chain. This helps prevent counterfeits and protects patients and brands from harmful or fake medications.
6. Improve Supply Chain Visibility
Real-time RFID tracking enables complete transparency of medical products, from manufacturing to point-of-care. It ensures regulatory compliance, proper inventory levels, and timely response to storage or delivery issues.
Why should you partner with SAG?
Trusted Across Healthcare Project
With extensive experience in project-based product development, we understand the diverse needs of the healthcare sector. This enables us to deliver tailored RFID solutions for complex and evolving applications.
Design to Production Capability
With expert antenna design for RFID labels and embedded tags, we provide a solution from proof of concept to reliable mass production, ensuring it is both high-performing and market-ready.
R&D-Driven Quality for Excellence
Our commitment to quality is backed by ISO 13485 certification and proven through performance testing by AXIA Lab under the TIPP framework, delivering compliance, reliability, and safety in every design.
Why should you partner with SAG?
Trusted Across Healthcare Project
With extensive experience in project-based product development, we understand the diverse needs of the healthcare sector. This enables us to deliver tailored RFID solutions for complex and evolving applications.
Design to Production Capability
With expert antenna design for RFID labels and embedded tags, we provide a solution from proof of concept to reliable mass production, ensuring it is both high-performing and market-ready.
R&D-Driven Quality for Excellence
Our commitment to quality is backed by ISO 13485 certification and proven through performance testing by AXIA Lab under the TIPP framework, delivering compliance, reliability, and safety in every design.
Applications and Pracitces
For Hospital
Asset and Equipment Visibility
Hospitals often struggle with locating vital equipment quickly. RFID enables instant location updates within hospital premises, helping staff save time during emergencies and ensuring essential resources are always accessible. Automated tracking also supports maintenance schedules and minimizes downtime.
Surgical Instrument Sterilization Monitoring
During reprocessing cycles, it’s critical to maintain accurate tracking through autoclave, gamma radiation, and chemical exposure. RFID solutions are designed to ensure traceability through each sterilization phase, supporting UDI (Unique Device Identifier) compliance and reducing manual errors.
Medication Dispensing Tracking
Managing high-value or sensitive medical products manually can lead to errors or stock discrepancies. Smart storage solutions powered by RFID provide real-time inventory updates, prevent errors, and send alerts for expired or low-stock items.
Asset and Equipment Visibility
Hospitals often struggle with locating vital equipment quickly. RFID enables instant location updates within hospital premises, helping staff save time during emergencies and ensuring essential resources are always accessible. Automated tracking also supports maintenance schedules and minimizes downtime.
Surgical Instrument Sterilization Monitoring
During reprocessing cycles, it’s critical to maintain accurate tracking through autoclave, gamma radiation, and chemical exposure. RFID solutions are designed to ensure traceability through each sterilization phase, supporting UDI (Unique Device Identifier) compliance and reducing manual errors.
Medication Dispensing Tracking
Managing high-value or sensitive medical products manually can lead to errors or stock discrepancies. Smart storage solutions powered by RFID provide real-time inventory updates, prevent errors, and send alerts for expired or low-stock items.
25 x 75 UHF Metal Label
25 x 75 UHF Metal Label (Roll to Roll) provides superior reading performance while offering higher data transfer speeds. It is suitable for asset management and inventory control.
18 x 35 HF Metal Label
To fulfill various requirements in RFID market, SAG consistently create and provide more options of RFID transponders for worldwide customers. Now, SAG is pleased to release a new format of HF Inlay / Label which is available with NXP NTAG213, MIFARE Ultralight & ICODE SLIX chips at present.
18 x 35 HF Metal Label
To fulfill various requirements in RFID market, SAG consistently create and provide more options of RFID transponders for worldwide customers. Now, SAG is pleased to release a new format of HF Inlay / Label which is available with NXP NTAG213, MIFARE Ultralight & ICODE SLIX chips at present.
25 x 75 UHF Metal Label
25 x 75 UHF Metal Label (Roll to Roll) provides superior reading performance while offering higher data transfer speeds. It is suitable for asset management and inventory control.
Pharmaceutical Industry
Supply Chain Transparency and Compliance
As medications move through manufacturing, distribution, and pharmacy shelves, RFID helps provide continuous visibility, which is critical for meeting regulations like the DSCSA, which mandates the full serialization and traceability of item-level drug authentication.
Protection Against Counterfeit Products
Ensuring product authenticity is crucial in the pharmaceutical industry, as it directly impacts patient safety and brand trust. RFID-enabled smart packaging helps pharmacists and healthcare providers verify the authenticity of drugs, particularly high-value or high-risk medications.
Real-Time Cold Chain Monitoring
Sensitive medical products require consistent temperature control, as even slight deviations can affect their efficacy or safety. RFID-enabled monitoring solutions provide real-time alerts when conditions exceed safe limits, helping ensure the integrity of biologics and vaccines.
Supply Chain Transparency and Compliance
As medications move through manufacturing, distribution, and pharmacy shelves, RFID helps provide continuous visibility, which is critical for meeting regulations like the DSCSA, which mandates the full serialization and traceability of item-level drug authentication.
Protection Against Counterfeit Products
Ensuring product authenticity is crucial in the pharmaceutical industry, as it directly impacts patient safety and brand trust. RFID-enabled smart packaging helps pharmacists and healthcare providers verify the authenticity of drugs, particularly high-value or high-risk medications.
Real-Time Cold Chain Monitoring
Sensitive medical products require consistent temperature control, as even slight deviations can affect their efficacy or safety. RFID-enabled monitoring solutions provide real-time alerts when conditions exceed safe limits, helping ensure the integrity of biologics and vaccines.
For Laboratories/ Clinic Tests
Specimen Tracking
Ensuring the movement of samples between testing stations is critical. RFID-tagged specimens ensure an unbroken chain of custody, preventing sample mix-ups or loss. RFID streamlines tracking across the entire process, ensuring proper identification and secure handling from start to finish.
Consumable Authentication
Authenticating reagents and test cartridges before use is essential for reliable test results. RFID-enabled systems help verify the legitimacy of lab supplies, ensuring labs only work with approved and non-expired resources.
Precision Setup for Lab Instruments
Calibrating laboratory devices accurately can be time-consuming and error-prone. With RFID, instruments can automatically detect what’s being used and adjust settings (e.g., pressure, flow rate) accordingly, reducing manual intervention and setup time.
Specimen Tracking
Ensuring the movement of samples between testing stations is critical. RFID-tagged specimens ensure an unbroken chain of custody, preventing sample mix-ups or loss. RFID streamlines tracking across the entire process, ensuring proper identification and secure handling from start to finish.
Consumable Authentication
Authenticating reagents and test cartridges before use is essential for reliable test results. RFID-enabled systems help verify the legitimacy of lab supplies, ensuring labs only work with approved and non-expired resources.
Precision Setup for Lab Instruments
Calibrating laboratory devices accurately can be time-consuming and error-prone. With RFID, instruments can automatically detect what’s being used and adjust settings (e.g., pressure, flow rate) accordingly, reducing manual intervention and setup time.
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Have More Questions?
RFID Makes Healthcare Smart
RFID has become the facilitator to transform the process and management job in healthcare into a smart way. Use cases are found at a laboratory or in a hospital when RFID benefits data transparency, reduces workload of staff, and enhances patient safety. With knowledge of materials and specific know-how on antenna design and production process, SAG has been involved with projects when users see a problem in these venues.
In a Laboratory
After multiple tests are carried out, data collection and matching might lead to mix-ups when human errors happen. Smart label is a common form factor to be used on items in a lab to avoid mix-ups by providing them with a unique ID. SAG can help more label solutions as below.
Material Science
There might be extreme conditions such as drastic temperature change in a test or tube with large radius surface to attach a smart label. SAG has the expertise in adhesive technology to realize these applications.
100% Premium (Perfect) Roll
In some cases, a roll of “continuous good labels” might be on demand to help increase the job efficiency without the interruption of bad labels. SAG is capable of bringing premium (perfect) roll by using a self-developed converting machine to ensure the label quality in terms of electrical performance and mechanical strength.
In a hospital
The introduction of the Unique Device Identification (UDI) system from both the EU and FDA propels the adoption of RFID tag/label to enhance the traceability of medical devices. It tells how many times a surgical tool has been used, when it was sterilized, and where it is kept for the next preparation. With these advantages, it helps reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. UDI system can also verify a device’s authenticity when each item carries its own ID number
