The same technology that scans your lettuce and ground beef at the grocery store checkout is being used at Rice Memorial Hospital to increase medication safety. By bar-coding both the patient's ID ...

With QuickBooks Pro or Premier, you can use a bar code scanner to scan or enter a bar code manually when filling out the Item Name/Number field for new or existing entries in your company file. These ...

Attending a concert at the Fargodome soon could be a bit like a trip to the store. By next year, the dome is hoping to have a new bar-coding system in place so concert or event tickets can be scanned ...

electronically scan the bar coding on her wristband. In an instant, licensed practical nurse Lisa Bigus can review Merrill’s medication information on a laptop computer screen. She sees what ...

Purdue University chemists have developed a way to "bar code" individual chemical compounds, making it quick, easy and economical to identify the most biologically active ones among thousands of ...

Patients at hospitals and nursing homes don't always receive the correct medication -- a costly mistake that results in as many as 45,000 deaths per year. But a 3-year-old Kent company by the name of ...

Secure Symbology, a New York City-based auto-identification technology company, has introduced a serialized bar coding and software platform that it says provides an alternative to radio frequency ...

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, simple human error -- the improper administration of medications in hospitals -- has killed more than 70,000 patients and injured ...

As an HCA-affiliated hospital, CRMC uses bar coding technology in the delivery of medications and in documenting that all charges are properly coded to each patient account. eMAR, as it is called in ...

Years ago, when technology was just starting to classify and count all of us, we worried we’d become merely numbers. Now we may not even be readable numbers, but just ink on a bar code. And that’s a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers sorting through large numbers of chemical compounds to identify new drug candidates may soon be heading for the express check-out lane. Purdue University chemists ...

Researchers sorting through large numbers of chemical compounds to identify new drug candidates may soon be heading for the express check-out lane. Purdue University chemists have developed a way to ...