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Patient wristbands are being used to ensure patients, tests, and their records are accurately identified. Barcodes are added for increased functionality and rapid processing of this information throughout the patient’s stay. From admissions, laboratory, pharmacy, phlebotomy, through discharge processing and medical records that wristband is the key to positive identification and quality patient care. A […]

I was reading this interesting article on seafood fraud and traceability in The Wall Street Journal the other day. I had no idea of the scale of fraud in the food industry (not just seafood) which is estimated to cost $10 billion a year in the US alone. Add to this the current issues in […]

One of our clients is a large regional hospital with a renowned oncology department. It was considered important that the tests sent to the lab from cancer patients get priority handling so the labels are color coded to make them stand out from the other test samples that would be in process at the same time. The […]

You know the problem, you are using Excel as the database to print your labels using BarTender and when you select the records, BarTender insists on selecting a lot of blank rows. This is irritating because you’ll either have blank labels coming out of your printer, or you’ll need to manually deselect those unwanted rows. One of […]

If you are responsible for keeping track of assets in a healthcare facility, you probably have your hands full! Two of the main types of expensive assets that need to be kept under control are IT products and medical equipment. There was a time when the IT assets were easy to track – PCs, servers […]