[LINK] Re: [Fwd: Link Digest, Vol 144, Issue 22]

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

<in-joke> You're not Vicc under a new monker are you? </in-joke>

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> RFID has and will enable a new wave of productivity and cost 
> efficiency. You can do things with RFID which you could not do before 
> which was cost effective. Like ensure the correct drugs are administered.

In the most public "worst case" of mis-administration in Australia, 
traceability would not have done anything. When ? Canterbury Hospital ? 
administered a toxic concentration of radioactive dye to patients, it 
wasn't because the wrong patient was chosen, but because the data entry 
screen pre-populated the form. RFID would ensure that exactly the wrong 
drug was administered, exactly as prescribed.

> > The fact that at some point an RFID chip replaces a human in the
> > decision-making loop proves nothing. To assert that it reduces error
> > is to assume the very thing which you need to demonstrate.
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> Agree, but you only need to look at what barcodes have done to the 
> supply chain and warehouses. There is oodles of data on the improved 
> productivity and efficiency gained by Barcodes.....it is not difficult 
> to to see how this translate to RFID.

I agree that barcodes have made a big difference; but there's the rub. 
The barcodes made the really big gains; RFID is an incremental gain. But 
it's at least tenable for citizens to say "the extra small gains don't 
justify the impact on our privacy".

RC

> Also agree that you need to demonstrate its effectiveness. Anyone that 
> does not is GRAZY.. a pilot is essential. (as I said RFID are not 
> always suitable)
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> Regards
> Geoffrey Ramadan
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