Beginning with a 10-pack package of Wrigley's chewing gum that now resides at the Smithsonian, supermarkets have been scanning bar-coded packaged goods for more than 34 years. During this time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

LAS VEGAS -- Short code registry NeuStar has launched new technology that allows mobile phones to scan and process two-dimensional bar codes regardless of the mobile service provider, scanning ...

Your Android offers a number of helpful business tools that can effectively streamline your workday, including apps that read bar codes and feed information back to your computer. Using image ...

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 ...

One of the earliest forms of the bar code will celebrate its 40th anniversary Thursday, June 26. On that date in 1974, a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit Gum was scanned for its Universal Product Code (UPC) at ...

On a June morning in 1974, a Marsh Supermarket cashier in Troy, Ohio, rang up a 67-cent pack of Juicy Fruit chewing gum using something novel — the black and white stripes of a universal bar code. The ...