To incentivize nurses to fully integrate bar-code scanning into their routine workflow, scanning rates were incorporated into their performance evaluations, with awards given to nurses and hospital ...

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 ...

Bar code scanning is an easy way to track your business inventory or even keep tabs on office supplies. Many bar codes contain a lot number. A lot number is an ID that shows which batch or lot a ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to ...

Has any technological development in the past 50 years changed day-to-day life in America as much as the bar code? Basically every product we buy today has to be scanned using a bar code, also known ...

Beginning with a 10-pack package of Wrigley's chewing gum that now resides at the Smithsonian, supermarkets have been scanning bar-coded packaged goods for more than 34 years. During this time, ...

The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...

Almost all medications given in the hospital soon must bear a supermarket-style bar code that health workers will match to patients to help ensure they get the right dose of the right drug at the ...

These types of mistakes don’t happen often. But if your surgery is the one in 6,000 where it does, you’d probably wish some additional measures had been taken to avoid having a surgical sponge left ...