Barcoded Patient Wristbands and Blood Administration

I was recently inspired by Zebra Technologies’ white paper, It’s All in the Wrist: Improving Patient Safety with Barcode Wristbands, to comment on the increasing role of barcoded patient wristbands in ensuring accuracy of delivery and record keeping of medication administration. But, that’s not the only topic covered by that important Zebra resource. Barcode technology…

The Interoperability Challenge

A recent survey found that 58% of IT professionals considered interoperability – the ability of various enterprise systems to interact with other systems within the enterprise – to be their greatest challenge. During my 10 years of selling industrial computer products, I have found that there are more legacy applications being run today than one…

Barcoded Patient Wristbands and Medication Administration

Recent legislation and regulatory provisions designed to escalate U.S. implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems have elevated the status of barcoded patient wristbands to that of essential technology. This is just one of the revelations I gleaned from the recent Zebra Technologies white paper, It’s All in the Wrist: Improving Patient Safety with Barcode…

Industrial Ethernet Solutions

Industry has come to rely so heavily on the omnipresent Ethernet switch that it’s easily taken for granted. Ethernet switches serve as the building blocks of networks and act as network traffic cops, ensuring collision-free data flow, while maximizing network capacity and uptime, and simplifying network expansion to meet dynamic industrial needs. The bywords of…

X-Ring Technology

In today’s highly automated, 24/7/365 manufacturing facilities, where downtime is extremely costly making network redundancy and maximization of uptime absolutely critical to success of the enterprise, managed Ethernet switches reign supreme. These switches incorporate secondary processors that allow the engineer to manage a myriad of settings and advanced services to optimize detection of redundant paths…