Henry Ford Hospital Solves Specimen Management with Barcode Solution

Henry Ford Hospital employs more than 21,500 medical, administrative, and support staff. It has 3 million patient visits and performs nearly 50,000 surgeries  . . . and does nearly 6.8 million lab tests. Each year.

QR Code Update: Can 83% of Young Japanese Mobile Phone Users be Wrong?

I saw a poll the other day in which some reputable group estimated the

QR – Is it the Barcode of the Future?

The QR code, or “Quick Response” code, is a small square matrix that stores information — more information than your regular (or linear) barcode. QR codes can store contact information or serve up URLs to mobile content using free reader software, turning your cell phone into an instant bar code scanner, and they can do much more. [...]

Speaking of Barcodes: Part 3 of 3 (the future)

In this somewhat long Part 3, we will be very far afield of GS1 labeling in healthcare. What we’ll be talking about is just now becoming visible on the barcode horizon. (Contrary to the media predictions, the future of the barcode is not RFID tagged labels. We’ll be examining a barcode future that has orders of magnitude more capacity [...]

Speaking of Barcodes: Part 2 of 3

The first major evolutionary step for the barcode as an information proxy was to encode info in more than just one “linear” direction and by and large these types of barcodes usually look like a little square of dots and dashes, rather than uniform-height hashmarks running left to right. They transform the encoding density of the barcode and are called 2D [...]

Speaking of Barcodes: Part 1 of 3

I will stray a bit afield of the immediacy of GS1 labeling in medicine and the healthcare supply chain to talk about what’s possible now and what’s possible for healthcare and barcodes in the future. This was spurred, as many blog entries often are, by reading someone else’s blog.
An old colleague of mine, and a talented, savvy individual who is [...]