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Mississippi Blood Services tests radio frequency ID equipment for blood inventory management

Published in Blood Weekly, September 14th, 2006

With a short shelf life and cold storage conditions required for its products, Mississippi Blood Services recently completed its first trial using radio frequency identification (RFID) from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) (TI) and AARFID for inventory management, safety procedures and hospital delivery.

In this first phase of the closed-loop RFID experiment, each bag of blood was identified with a TI Tag-it HF-I ISO/IEC 15693 inlay embedded inside labels from MPI Label Systems. Multiple bags of blood were placed on trays and passed out of the cold storage room on a conveyor system, through a prototype portal custom-designed by AARFID (Advanced Applied Radio...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-09-14)

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