The FDA has recently updated its draft version of the UDI rule to include its proposal for the UDI system and tracking database. The Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) would keep track of all medical devices’ unique identifiers. In a previous draft (July 2010), the FDA defined a phased in approach to compliance depending […]
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Hospital Labs Doing More With Barcodes
Many hospital labs are using barcodes to accurately identify and track specimens/samples from receiving them at the lab, through testing and processing. This identification is the link to providing the right results for the right patient and updating the right medical record. In the beginning, hospitals started using barcodes within a specific department for a […]
Serialization – A Powerful Concept
Hmm, serialization sounds a simple concept. What does it mean? To find an answer for this, I turned to the only source that counts, The Oxford English Dictionary (well, the online version anyway). This is what I found… Interesting; I’ve always thought of serialization in terms of sequences of numbers, and we are not going to publish a play […]
Self Laminating Cable Labels
Been busy today printing up some cable labels for a client. These are the self laminating ones – the white printed part is applied to the cable first and the clear part wrapped over it, creating a very durable mark that is immune to just about any rough treatment. Some of these labels can be […]
The Coolest Barcode Tag?
A while ago, I wrote about how impressed I was with the Microsoft Tag barcode format and how we had spiced up our business card design by encoding our contact info via Microsoft. See the original post here. Twelve months or so later, how has this experiment worked out? Well, while I still think MS Tag is […]
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