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Smart Labels

RFID and NFC labels for multiple applications in the healthcare industry

Smart E-Labels: Optimized Processes and Patient Safety with RFID and NFC

Smart labels with integrated RFID technology support digitization in the healthcare industry: Devices, medicines, containers, consumables and equipment are provided with RFID, NFC or Bluetooth labels and then automatically and contactless captured, read and controlled. The result: Optimized processes, increased patient safety and reliable product and brand protection. Schreiner MediPharm develops customized smart pharma labels adapted to the manufacturing processes which can be used in various application areas of the pharmaceutical industry, medical technology and clinical research while ensuring reliable functionality—from production to the end user.

End-to-End RFID Functionality Across The Entire Supply Chain

RFID labels can be used throughout the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Critical aspects of the label’s construction are considered as early as in product development.

The data stored on the RFID chip enable automated inventory management, e.g. in hospital pharmacies.

A smartphone and corresponding app enable clear and reliable medicine authentication in final use.

With robust and flexible label designs, even containers with narrow radii pass smoothly through pharmaceutical production lines.

Our Smart Labels for your Special Field of Application

Communication between device and medication (lock-and-key principle)

The lock-and-key principle ensures that a medical device and its consumables, for example a drug, belong together without any doubt. The device is equipped with an RFID reader (= lock). It reads a consumable equipped with an RFID label (= key) automatically and contactless. The data stored on the RFID chip ensures that only original products are used.

Application areas

Injection devices
Pens
Adherence monitoring tools
Laboratory equipment
Diagnostic equipment

Benefits

Increases patient safety during self-medication and drug administration
Prevents the use of expired, wrong or counterfeit medicines and consumables
Helps avoid application and dosing errors
Prevents illegal reuse of original containers

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The key-lock principle enables the insulin pump to recognize the correct medication.

Automated inventory management (supply chain management)

At various stations, the RFID labels attached to the product are automatically recorded and seamlessly documented. RFID sensor labels can be used to digitally monitor the integrity, first opening or tampering of a container.

Application areas

Warehouse management and inventory management
Monitoring and control of packaging and logistics processes
Real-time control of material and product flows

Benefits

Clear identification
Automatic product data acquisition
Optimal use of consumables
Enhanced security of supply
Protection against potential medication errors
Increase in process reliability and transparency

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Authenticity protection and first-opening indication (authentication)

Drugs equipped with NFC labels can be digitally authenticated via smartphone and possible tampering with them can be detected. In real time, the user receives a clear result indicating whether he is holding an original drug in his hands. The pharmaceutical manufacturer receives information for monitoring the supply chain and avoiding possible gray market activities.

Application areas

Product and brand protection
Counterfeit protection
First opening indication and proof of authenticity
Supply chain security

Benefits

Easy handling
Integration of product-specific information
Clear result, no interpretation required
Transparency about product usage in the market

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Woman uses a smartphone to check whether it is an original medicine.

Smartphone-based user support (Patient Centricity)

Through their interactive applications, NFC/RFID labels support medication adherence and improve a patient's compliance. Physicians can individually adjust the medication dosage as needed. At the same time, loyalty to the drug and the pharmaceutical company is built up among the physician and user.

Application areas

Application to primary packaging (vials, bottles, syringes, pens and autoinjectors)
Application on secondary packaging (folding boxes, outer packaging)

Benefits