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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've known the dismal statistics for a while now. Each year as many as 98,000 Americans die as a result of human errors made in hospitals. MORE THAN 7,000 of them--a higher number than those lost to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

Hundreds of thousands of hospital patients in the U.S. experience adverse reactions to preventable medication errors every year, but at the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, a new high-tech ...

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 ...

Officials at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, say a bedside medication verification (BMV) system has resulted in 97 percent compliance with electronic scanning of medications and ...

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 ...

Bar coding is an automatic identification technology that allows data to be collected rapidly and accurately from all aspects of a company’s operations, including manufacturing, inspection, ...