At this site, GS1 Healthcare has made the following announcement: To support the immediate
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At this site, GS1 Healthcare has made the following announcement: To support the immediate
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Okay, yet another example of how bedside medication and barcodes is clearly needed in every hospital now! This recent article includes a brief mention of how the Veterans Affairs health system implements bedside barcoding:
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Today is the 57th anniversary of the first barcode patent. Apparently that interested Google enough to devote one of their famous doodles to mark the occasion. At this Examiner.com article you can see the result and a quick overview of why so many people are fans of the technology.
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If you’re not familiar with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) — and especially if you are a pharmacist — you may want to check them out.
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One of the questions some people have these days when it comes to GS1 — and the lists of attributes you can pull from the GDSN on anything that is GS1 coded — is, “What in the world are we going to do with all the additional data we’re able to get?” Answers to that [...]
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For the record, I would be using this story entitled, “Barcodes outpacing RFID technology in manufacturing adoption,”
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Many of us see a lot of promise in the future of patient bedside barcoding. There’s no question it will prevent a lot of medication errors
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There have been a number of stories of late about innovative hospitals turning to bedside barcoding systems and on-site electronic medical records. That’s a good thing as far as it goes. But if I’m in, let’s say, Vermont and I travel to Boston for a Red Sox game and have a coronary event in the [...]
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Lots of people don’t necessarily understand why it should be so hard and so expensive to initiate an electronic medical records system.
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The groundswell that will become the tsunami continues. NBC’s WVIR-TV affiliate in Virginia has joined a growing number of mainstream media reports of late noting the benefits of bedside barcoding. In this instance, the spotlight is on Martha Jefferson Hospital. In the report, NBC says: It is one of 25 hospitals in the country to [...]
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Are you a barcode guru? That’s the question SupplyChainDigest can help you resolve by taking their ten question quiz, located here
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Trust the folks at MIT labs to not be outdone by the 3D barcode. The MIT News office has issued a report saying that researchers at the Media Lab have come up with a new kind of barcode.
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Obviously by now you know I’m a big advocate for barcodes.
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At barcode.com, writer Melina McLean has posted a poll question asking whether or not you think the GS1 DataBar will replace the UPC.
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This is a follow-up to a post I published the other day about Mark Neuenschwander’s outstanding presentation at the recent GS1 Healthcare Conference in Washington, DC, where he spoke at length about bedside barcode technology benefits. Mark didn’t specifically use the expression ‘market pull,’ but that is what he was talking about at one point when he said [...]
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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.
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This is to bring to your attention a GSMP (Global
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The Global GS1 Healthcare conference held in Washington last month is now available as streaming videos from GS1. The list of plenary sessions is available here. That said, Mark Neuenschwander’s must-see presentation on bedside barcoding is here.
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While some of last week’s GS1 Healthcare Conference in Washington, D.C., was, in many respects, a compendium of earlier GS1 meetings, pretty much all of it was solid and more than worth the time to attend (or view the webcast). Of special note to me was Mark Neuenschwander’s out-standing presentation on barcode efficacy, power and [...]
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For your convenience in keeping up with some of the things that made news at the recent Global GS1 Healthcare Conference
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| Chris Piela on GS1’s GEPIR Search Servi… | |
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