Bar code scanning has become the de facto system used in retail, as well as many other industries, due to its accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness. Moreover, it is an approach that provides ...

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 ...

In the year 2000, US pharmaceutical companies spent 16 billion dollars supporting the distribution and marketing of prescription drug samples to physicians. A full 50% of those costs went directly to ...

The implementation of point-of-care BCMA required the ongoing collaboration of the pharmacy, nursing, and informatics departments. The informatics department was essential in the planning and ...

Not a subscriber? Apply online today. The linear bar code, and by extension—manually collected bar code data—is no longer the hot new data capture technology for materials handing in warehouses, ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accu-Sort ® Systems, Inc. will be exhibiting at the 2010 RILA Logistics Conference, booth 318, February 21-24, 2010 in Orlando, FL. The company will be demonstrating bar ...

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 positively impact medication ...

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 ...

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has detailed a few of the pertinent facts from that day, ...