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Liz From is RFID Strategist for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ms. From advises pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare organizations on the application of RFID to improve patient and product safety as well as to gain operational efficiencies. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. From was a senior manager at Coopers and Lybrand Consulting for 3 years. Before that, she was a senior analyst at PCWeek (now eWeek), serving as the liaison for PCWeek's Corporate Advisory Panel. She was a senior consultant and product marketing strategist in her previous position at a health benefits software company. Her speaking engagements include CBI's Pharmaceutical Product Security Summit, Barnett's Pharmaceutical RFID Technologies, and Gartner's Healthcare Business and IT Summit. Ms. From is an active member of the EPCglobal Healthcare and Life Science Business Action Group.
Vivek Khandelwal is the Principal RFID Solutions Manager in the RFID Business Unit at Sun Microsystems. He leads the development of RFID Industry Solutions for various industry verticals. Mr. Khandelwal also contributes to Sun's overall business and product strategy around RFID technology. Before joining the RFID Business Unit, Mr. Khandelwal has held various positions in the Java/J2EE business teams, Computer Systems engineering teams at Sun. Prior to joining Sun, Mr. Khandelwal was a member of the technical staff at Wipro Infotech's Global R&D Center. Mr. Khandelwal has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the Leavey School of Business in Santa Clara University.
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Sun RFID Solution for Drug Authentication
Liz From and Vivek Khandelwal, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Drug Counterfeiting is a menace that affects us all in our day-to-day lives. The pharmaceutical industry and regulatory bodies around the world have been evaluating various measures to prevent drug counterfeiting. RFID enabled drug authentication is one of the prime anti-counterfeiting measure gaining acceptance from the industry and regulatory bodies alike. The pharmaceutical industry, regulatory bodies, such as the FDA in US, and technology standards bodies, like EPCGlobal are coming together on generally acceptable standards for the use of this technology in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Work still remains to be done around standards. Sun Microsystems, a leading technology vendor and a member of various standards bodies, including EPCGlobal, has been providing thought leadership around the use of this technology in the pharmaceutical industry and other industry verticals. The Sun RFID Industry Solution for Drug Authentication, launched in November 2005, brings together all the technology components from Sun and partners to implement a complete drug authentication solution. The Sun RFID Industry Solution lays out a roadmap to take customers from a simpler RFID Electronic Product Code (EPC) based drug authentication today to a more complex, supply chain wide, electronic pedigree based authentication in future.
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