The more years I spend in the industrial arena, the more I’ve come to appreciate the resources provided by the companies that supply the services and equipment that are the lifeblood of this industry. Zebra Technologies offers numerous white-papers as an on-line resource for IT pros.
Take for example, Zebra’s Benefiting From Bedside Specimen Labeling, that details strategies for improving patient safety as well as honoring health-information privacy responsibilities. As this Zebra “Black & White” paper notes: “Each year more than 160,900 adverse events occur in U.S. hospitals because of sample identification errors according to one study, which also found that one in 18 sample identification errors leads directly to an adverse event.”
It is clear that few labeling challenges are as critical as the accuracy in labeling patient samples. Bedside collection of patient samples eliminates unnecessary steps and errors; all critical to ensuring patient safety.
Zebra has identified three key elements to deployment of an effective “point-of-care labeling system”:
- A mobile computing system with a user-friendly bar-code reader.
- A mobile label printer that is easily transported to the patient.
- A durable label media that will adhere to the full range of sample containers used by the healthcare facility.
The ease of use of this printer, and mobile label printers such as Zebra’s compact QL 220 Plus have been specifically designed and engineered to meet the critical patient-specimen labeling challenges.
As Zebra’s Benefiting from Bedside Specimen Labeling demonstrates, its white-papers can serve as a valuable resource to anyone tasked with designing effective labeling strategies. This searchable resource is arranged by business need, industry and technology to make finding information quick and easy.