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 […]
Labeling Ideas
Browse through these labeling ideas to learn more about how you can utilize labeling machinery for you specific product requirements. Labeling machinery is versatile to accommodate diverse applications. View these articles to learn about labelers and labeling machinery along with labeling solutions.
Preparing For UDI
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 […]
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 […]
GS1 Addresses UDI Labeling Concerns
A final ruling on UDI implementation is expected this year, causing medical device manufacturers to hasten implementation of a UDI system. Some manufacturers, however, think that implementing a system for labeling and tracking medical devices will take longer than expected by the FDA. If you are a medical device manufacturer trying to figure out how […]
McDonald’s and Sustainable Fisheries
I have to be honest here, I would never have imagined that I’d be sitting at my desk writing about sustainability in the food supply chain and including McDonald’s. But then, in one of my morning scans of Google News, I noticed that McDonald’s fish products (I had no idea that these even contained real […]
Phlebotomist Labeling At The Bedside Reduces Errors
Most phlebotomists spend a great deal of their day on the move, from patient to patient. With each new patient comes a sample or a collection of specimens. The importance of labeling each one with the correct information that ties that sample to the correct patient, on a specific date/time, has no room for error. […]
Steps to Improve Lab Labeling
Are you using barcoding in your healthcare lab? If not, you should. There are a number of good reasons why barcoded labels are the best method for identifying that important specimen, and why barcoding is commonplace in successful laboratories. Your labels contain critical information about the sample it is put on. If you or someone […]
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