Posted on November 3, 2009 by sterling1
If you want a glimpse into how the application of patient, medical record, and treatment applications, outcomes and costs can be improved everywhere and for all by a set of national digital healthcare standards,
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on September 28, 2009 by Christopher Little
I’ll be at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld event starting October 12th in San Francisco. Loftware will have a booth (3108) and I will be participating on an important panel with Oracle, the FDA and GS1 that will spotlight healthcare applications with a special emphasis on supply chain safety and standards.
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Posted on September 19, 2009 by sterling1
David Pogue of The New York Times has written this interesting and positive story entitled, “Charting a New Course,”
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Posted on September 1, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on August 24, 2009 by Christopher Little
‘Global Drug Infusion Pumps Market 2008-2012′ is a new research study that’s being made available via companiesandmarkets.com.
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Posted on August 20, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on August 7, 2009 by svigneault
Improving Patient Safety and Supply Chain Efficiency with Data Standards: The Basics of GS1 Standards in Healthcare is the name of an upcoming web seminar to be offered on August 25th
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by sterling1
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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Posted on August 3, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on July 29, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on July 21, 2009 by Christopher Little
Novation has become the first group purchasing organization (GPO) to
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Posted on July 16, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on July 10, 2009 by sterling1
Posted on July 9, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on June 26, 2009 by sterling1
This comes from a long news release, but the important message is pretty straightforward: GS1 Canada and GHX have agreed to form a strategic alliance to create a global standards-based product registry for healthcare products.
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Posted on June 26, 2009 by Christopher Little
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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Posted on June 22, 2009 by sterling1
There are two very interesting tidbits of information in this ABC News story about the most recent settlement by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberley Buffington
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Posted on June 11, 2009 by Christopher Little
Here’s a piece of news and which, according to Gary Lynch, Chief Executive at GS1 UK, contains news of strategic
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Posted on June 10, 2009 by sterling1
I’m thinking MedAssets may have been a supporter of GS1 long before issuing a news release
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