SRI/Surgical Installs 1 Mill. RFID Tags

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SRI/Surgical installs company-wide RFID technology

 

SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. has successfully implemented Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology in all ten of its processing facilities across the United States. SRI will install RFID chips in over one million of its reusable surgical gowns and drapes. SRI believes that this is the first full integration of RFID Technology into Class II Medical Devices and among the largest uses to date of “Multi- Read” applications of RFID technology. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology is a powerful method for identifying and tracking a wide range of objects in diverse environments based on the use of a small tag (or ‘transponder’) that stores a unique code, together with additional information that the user may specify. A ‘reader’ is used both to transmit a signal to a tag and retrieve stored information from it; no contact or line-of-sight is required, and long operating ranges are possible. SRI incorporated “multi-read” RFID tags into its surgical gowns and drapes, replacing its use of labor intensive bar code scanning to track product usage.

 

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