It has become common practice for hospitals and other healthcare facilities to use barcode scanners to improve patient care on a daily basis. Patient wristbands are barcoded, allowing the medical facility to track its patients, dispense medication accurately and to the correct patient, perform the correct procedure on the correct patient, and keep accurate records…
One of the biggest changes seen in the healthcare field is the introduction of barcodes in almost every application. Typically seen on a patient’s wristband, hospitals now have barcodes on almost everything, some of which you may have never heard of. Here are 6 Ways to Use Barcodes in a Hospital: Patient Wristbands o Upon…
With a family of five, including three young children, it is pretty much inevitable that I will spend more time in the Emergency Department than most people. Case in point, I have been up to the Pediatric ED twice in the past few months. My four year old son was the first to go, when…
2D barcodes are leaving their mark on lots of industry applications – pun intended! So why has 2D barcode scanning become so prevalent? Smaller Size While 1D barcodes are small, 2D barcodes are (or at least can be) even smaller…less than ½ inch long x ½ inch wide! Why does smaller = better? Simply put,…
Recent additions to Zebra Technologies’ extensive white paper library include a report prepared by the research firm of Frost & Sullivan entitled Seeking Sustainable Growth: Understanding the value real-time visibility technology brings to business and people. While the 12-page report covers a range of RTLS-related topics, including current and future scopes of the global RTLS…
For many in the healthcare profession, this will be old news. Others, particularly those not yet fully acclimated to government acronyms, may read this note with a growing sense of alarm. On September 24, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a directive establishing the Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID). The purpose…
A new trend in the healthcare industry is for organizations to implement a barcode labeling system to keep track of products. In such tracking applications, barcode labels and scanners go together like immunizations and disease outbreaks. You cannot have one without the other. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control found an efficient solution when it…
For more than 20 years, the same doctor served as my general practitioner, and during those years the medical records he maintained on me were all on paper and grew from a few pages in a single folder to an impressively-thick stack of pages bound in that same folder. He not only knew my medical…
We’ve written extensively about the importance to patient safety of rigorous identification protocols, and implementation of the patient wristbands is key to most such strategies. But strapping an ID band – any ID band – on your patients’ wrists does not, in and of itself, ensure their safety. As Zebra Technologies explores in its recent…
It wasn’t long ago that I disdained YouTube as the place people went to catch up on the latest in amateur videos featuring cat antics, bad rap and, well, worse. Shows what little I know. Now, I count online videos among my go-to sources for information on the latest in tech. L-Tron even has a…
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