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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Officials at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, say a bedside medication verification (BMV) system has resulted in 97 percent compliance with electronic scanning of medications and ...

Hundreds of thousands of hospital patients in the U.S. experience adverse reactions to preventable medication errors every year, but at the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, a new high-tech ...

As an HCA-affiliated hospital, CRMC uses bar coding technology in the delivery of medications and in documenting that all charges are properly coded to each patient account. eMAR, as it is called in ...

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 ...

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 ...