GS1 Releases GPC Codes for Drugs and Medical Devices

At this site, GS1 Healthcare has made the following announcement: To support the immediate  

Another Example of Why We Need GS1 and Patient Bedside Barcoding Now!

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:

Anniversary of 1st Barcode Patent Honored by Google

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.

Pharmacists’ Professional Society Offers Barcode Problem Reporting Center

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.

GS1 Australia and Victoria University Piloting Mobile App for Diet

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 [...]

Loftware Featured in Success Story on Comparative Cost of Barcodes vs. RFID

For the record, I would be using this story entitled, “Barcodes outpacing RFID technology in manufacturing adoption,”

Bedside Barcoding Not Immune to Human Error If Mis-Coded

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

Who Will Ultimately Own the Partient Barcode ID?

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 [...]

Wristband Barcodes Drive Midland Memorial’s E-Medical Records

Lots of people don’t necessarily understand why it should be so hard and so expensive to initiate an electronic medical records system.

Bedside Barcoding Continues to Get More Mainstream Media Attention

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 [...]

Challenging Barcode Quiz Offered by SupplyChainDigest

Are you a barcode guru? That’s the question SupplyChainDigest can help you resolve by taking their ten question quiz, located here

Barcode Breakthrough, called Bokode, Discovered by MIT Labs

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.

Will Barcodes on Trees Stop Illegal Logging?

Obviously by now you know I’m a big advocate for barcodes.

GS1 DataBar: Inevitable in age when “information is king and space is limited?”

At barcode.com, writer Melina McLean has posted a poll question asking whether or not you think the GS1 DataBar will replace the UPC.

Bedside Barcode Adoption Resistance: What Happens When The Public Finds Out?

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 [...]

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.

GS1 Healthcare Blood Derivatives Work Group Spotlighting Relabeling Dangers

This is to bring to your attention a GSMP (Global

Global GS1 Healthcare Conference Videos Are Now Available

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.

Spotlight On GS1 Global Healthcare Meeting Last Week: Barcodes At Bedside Now!!!

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 [...]

Global GS1 Healthcare Conference News Items

For your convenience in keeping up with some of the things that made news at the recent Global GS1 Healthcare Conference