RFID technology rapidly deploys medical supplies to U.S. healthcare system

GD Medical is an OEM company for major U.S. healthcare companies including Johnson & Johnson, Medtronics, and Medline, among others. In early 2020, it selected RFID experts to custom design and produce an innovative RFID tag that can withstand multiple cycles of gamma ray radiation.

      At the start of 2020, demand for personal protective equipment surged in the face of the novel coronavirus outbreak and the severe challenges of rapid delivery to institutions. Full vertical integration from raw materials to global distribution provides GD Medical with maximum flexibility and control over costs, quality and delivery times, with distribution centers throughout the United States for comprehensive geographic coverage. GD Medical specializes in ensuring complete sterilization of its PPE shipments and provides advanced tracking and authentication capabilities that are critical for immediate distribution at the point of care. Gamma ray radiation is commonly used to sterilize medical equipment and other essential medical products, but they can adversely affect most electronic tracking devices currently on the market.

      Let’s design and customize an RFID system that can withstand multiple cycles of gamma ray radiation. These tags will be used at scale and have a project turnaround time of only a few weeks. Leveraging its Engineering resources for GD Medical coordination while leveraging its gamma sterilization facility in Nantong, China, it was able to rapidly conduct prototyping and testing.

       Labels are available to manufacturers and label laminators worldwide. In addition to personal protective equipment, many partners are working to deploy upcoming vaccines and treatments for the novel coronavirus. In addition to withstanding multiple cycles of electron beam and gamma ray irradiation, the metal-resistant global band RFID tags are available in two sizes for easy printing.

       The Gamma tag is part of a family of metal-resistant flexible FDA UDI-compliant RFID tags that support tracking and automation throughout the medical supply chain. With ten years of experience in tracking innovation for medical device manufacturers and medical institutions, Xerafy first proposed the concept of smart instruments. Among them, surgical and medical equipment in medical institutions or at the performance site are enabled with RFID technology to help improve patient safety and operational efficiency, thereby complying with the FDA's UDI Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements.