Almost all medications given in the hospital soon must bear a supermarket-style bar code that health workers will match to patients to help ensure they get the right dose of the right drug at the ...
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 ...
The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...
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, ...
At MD&M West 2025, Cognex Corp. (Booth #5354) showed Design News its DataMan 290, an AI-powered bar code reader suitable for use in any environment. Eric Hershberger, principal applications engineer ...
That’s a very difficult question to answer. It you are inquiring about the cost of everything—hardware, software, services and data-capture—it would be very hard to estimate price, since that would ...