Evaluating potential benefits of the use of RFID, EPCglobal, and ebXML in the pharmaceutical supply chain

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 198-222

  Guido, Anna Lisa ^a   Mainetti, Luca ^a   Patrono, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

EbXML; EPCglobal; Healthcare; Item level tracing; Key performance indicator; KPI; Living laboratory approach; Pharmaceutical supply chain management; Radio frequency identification; RFID

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRONIC BUSINESS USING EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE; EPCGLOBAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHARMACEUTICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84870653702     PISSN: 13682156     EISSN: 17415144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.2012.050625     Document Type: Article

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