Case Study:

As part of the BRIDGE (Building Radio frequency IDentification solutions for
the Global Environment) project, leading healthcare sector companies and solution providers have demonstrated full item-level traceability based upon mass serialization techniques in a live operating environment through its participation in the
Pharma Traceability pilot.

The BRIDGE project is part funded by
the EU and involves several business application work packages that aim to research, develop and implement tools to enable the deployment of RFID and
EPCglobal applications in Europe.

The key objective of the pilot was to implement a complete supply chain traceability system for pharmaceutical products to improve patient safety and increase supply chain efficiency.
Additionally the data model adopted
provided the support necessary to enable
the development of related supply chain applications such as electronic pedigree, authentication, recall, inventory
management and financial reconciliation.  

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The operational pilot, completed in May 2008, is, as far as we are aware,
the only one of its kind in the world to involve the trialling of such a
comprehensive standards-based tracking and tracing system within a live,
end-to-end supply chain spanning drug packaging, their distribution,
right through to their receipt at the hospital pharmacy.

The data collected during the pilot is currently being evaluated and the key learnings are being developed by the pilot participants.  Overall, the pilot was a success and it demonstrated that the technology required to implement a full international supply chain traceability system is available today.
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