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Using bar codes in the lab.(Massachusetts General Hospital, TriCore Reference Laboratories )
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston and TriCore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, are among a growing number of hospitals and laboratories implementing bar-code solutions to help improve lab workflow, reduce lab errors, and improve patient safety.
This trend has been supported by a number of industry initiatives and regulations, including the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the College of American Pathologists, and the University Health Systems Consortium (UHC) Bar-Coding Task Force, which in 2005 released its recommendations ...
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Challenge #1: FDA's bar code initiative. (Special Unit-Dose Packaging).(use of bar codes reduces dosage errors)
Magazine article from: Food & Drug Packaging
; ...process to require bar codes on packages of prescription...proposing that the bar code be embedded with...packages without a bar code, or packages with an unreadable bar code, will be considered...emphasis added] bar codes, in part, because...hospitals. ...
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Error-proof data entry: embedding bar code readers to improve the automated process.
Magazine article from: Designfax
; Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable...reasons for integrating bar code readers into OEM...decoding a linear bar code, single-row bar codes are considered one-dimension...to the bars of the bar code. Bar codes on a moving line...
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Bar code_verifiers_: bar codes must be sharp, accurate and consistent throughout the press run. Verifiers and validation equipment ensure the accuracy that is essential to the labeled product.(Industry Overview)
Magazine article from: Label & Narrow Web
; ...an accurately printed bar code. Bar codes appear in a variety of...and appearance of the bar code -- or product code, to...verifies the quality of the bar code -- the likelihood that...computer on the first pass. Bar codes have to meet specifications...
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FDA wants bar codes on all pharmaceuticals. (Industry News).(Food and Drug Administration proposes law requiring bar codes on biological products, drugs)
Magazine article from: Label & Narrow Web
; ...proposed a regulation mandating the use of bar codes on drugs and biological products. If adopted...would require hospitals to use scanners and bar codes in an effort to reduce medical error. A recent...percent of hospital medications currently have bar codes. The Food and Drug ...
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FDA pushes bar code and RFID technologies: the agency hopes the technology will stem drug counterfeiting and patient medical errors.(RFID/ADC)
Magazine article from: Frontline Solutions
; Bar codes and radio frequency...rules requiring bar codes on most drugs and...separate issues. Bar Codes Can Save Lives The final bar code rule applies to...have to include bar codes within 60 days...rule allows for bar codes based ...
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Demand for new and better bar codes spurs changes in marking equipment: emerging technologies tackle coding challenges, both large and small, for foods and pharmaceuticals.(Coding Equipment)
Magazine article from: Food & Drug Packaging
; ...Administration's bar code proposal, which...manufacturers to place bar codes on drug labels and...RSS and other new bar code symbologies, such...two-dimensional (2D) bar codes. To put bar codes...Although the FDA's bar code proposal ...
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'If it scans it's OK' .... not true in the matter of the quality of bar codes.
Magazine article from: Food Trade Review
; ...Matter of the Quality of Bar Codes Bar code scanning equipment manufacturers...which cannot read the bar codes and so rejects them. If...Scanning is not the key to bar code quality. The key...device for all common bar code formats. Peter Hicks...
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Bar codes and computers help retailers compete. (Archery Aisle)
Magazine article from: Shooting Industry
; ...competitive. But as bar codes have become standard...According to him, bar code technology isn't...themselves don't have bar code technology. In that...printing your own bar codes with a standard computer...codes. Because the bar code contains only ...
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TALtech: create Bar Codes in Windows and the Internet. (Tech on display: special advertising section).(Bar Code software, ActiveX and DLLs )(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Frontline Solutions
; TALtech's Bar Code software, ActiveX and DLLs create the highest quality bar codes of all major linear and 2D symbologies...printer. Free working demos for: Bar code software (B-Coder Pro), Bar Code ActiveX and DLLs Bar code data...
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No need to compromise: you can print bar codes directly from both UNIX and Linux environments. (Printers UNIX/Linux).
Magazine article from: Frontline Solutions
; ...platform for their bar code printing. What they...needs to output bar codes on labels, documents...common way to print bar codes from either the...is to connect a bar code printer with a Windows-bas...method of printing bar codes across all ...
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