Point-of-Care Test Barcoding Yields 593% Reduction in Specimen Mislabeling

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: December 18, 2013

I wrote recently about the importance of establishing reliable patient- and specimen-identification protocols and of then following them. That last part, actually following established protocol, may seem too obvious to waste space here saying, but my research revealed that simply failure to follow established procedures is indeed a leading, if not the leading, cause of…

Which Came First, the Bar Code or the Label?

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: May 20, 2013

Thank you to Bernard Silver and Joseph Woodland for inventing the very first bar code. It has saved businesses countless dollars, time and energy. When you think about all the processes that go on in many businesses today it’s truly a competitive advantage to have automated processes. Think of things like asset management, inventory management,…