RFID-enabled pharmaceutical regulatory traceability system

Healthcare industry is one of the largest industries all over the world. Nevertheless, counterfeits and medical errors harm its prosperity. At present, researchers focus more on hospital information system, leaving the whole healthcare supply chain out of account. However, overall-process regulation of the whole healthcare supply chain is essential to overcome the predicament. In this study, PharmaX is proposed to shed light on the pharmaceutical traceability and overall-process regulation. This system ensures that all pharmaceutical supply chain participants can integrate with each other, resulting in information sharing, consistency checking and anti-counterfeit. E-pedigree is therefore formed and used to recall defective drugs as well as realize traceability.