Attending a concert at the Fargodome soon could be a bit like a trip to the store. By next year, the dome is hoping to have a new bar-coding system in place so concert or event tickets can be scanned ...

We've known the dismal statistics for a while now. Each year as many as 98,000 Americans die as a result of human errors made in hospitals. MORE THAN 7,000 of them--a higher number than those lost to ...

Mercy Medical Center has added breast milk to its bar-coding system to avoid milk swaps in vulnerable premature infants, which can result in transmitting disease. Babies that remain in the neonatal ...

Purdue University chemists have developed a way to "bar code" individual chemical compounds, making it quick, easy and economical to identify the most biologically active ones among thousands of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers sorting through large numbers of chemical compounds to identify new drug candidates may soon be heading for the express check-out lane. Purdue University chemists ...

electronically scan the bar coding on her wristband. In an instant, licensed practical nurse Lisa Bigus can review Merrill’s medication information on a laptop computer screen. She sees what ...

Secure Symbology, a New York City-based auto-identification technology company, has introduced a serialized bar coding and software platform that it says provides an alternative to radio frequency ...

Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

NORWALK --It's kind of like a grocery store check-out line for medication. The same type of bar-coding system that tells a cashier how much the package of chicken is supposed to cost on sale is now ...

Years ago, when technology was just starting to classify and count all of us, we worried we’d become merely numbers. Now we may not even be readable numbers, but just ink on a bar code. And that’s a ...

Bar coding is an automatic identification technology that allows data to be collected rapidly and accurately from all aspects of a company’s operations, including manufacturing, inspection, ...

Mar. 4—The Santa Fe Police Department has finished upgrading and replacing locks and keys in its evidence storage area and purchased a bar-coding system for evidence management, Deputy Chief Ben ...