Data Collection Healthcare News

  1. TechnorRiver Updates Barcode Software To Support Optical Character Recognition Text labels 8/5/2008
    TechnoRiver is pleased to announce the availablity of a new release of its industry-leading label design and barcode software TechnoRiverStudio (formerly SmartCodeStudio).
  2. IDAutomation.com Announces The Release Of Their DataBar Image Generator 7/28/2008
    IDAutomation.com releases the DataBar Image Generator, which allows easy generation of DataBar barcodes for desktop publishing applications.
  3. Kaiser Permanente's Panorama City Hospital Goes Live With Medication Bar Code Scanning 7/23/2008
    In an effort to enhance patient safety, Panorama City Hospital, a Kaiser Permanente (KP) care facility operating in Southern California has become the first KP hospital to implement medication bar code scanning. The current implementation is part of the final phase of installation of KP HealthConnect at Panorama City.
  4. RFID Usage In The Patient Care Environment Gets Clean Bill Of Health 7/17/2008
    Hospitals and other patient care facilities are safe using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in their facilities, according to a new study by BlueBean and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
  5. New, Web-based RFID Roulette Game Educates Public About RFID's Diverse Uses 7/17/2008
    RFID Revolution, an RFID education and market strategy consulting firm, has introduced RFID Roulette, a lively, Internet-based game designed to help people learn about the diverse uses of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
  6. Patient Care Technology System Selected By Mary Washington Hospital For Patient And Asset Tracking 7/17/2008
    A subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), recently announced that Mary Washington Hospital (MWH) has selected the company's Amelior EDTracker software to automatically track patients and assets in its over 100,000 census emergency department.
  7. NHS Selects LaserBand To Improve Patient Safety 7/16/2008
    Yesterday, the National Health Service (NHS) awarded a multi-year contract to LaserBand, LLC, to provide a broad range of patient wristband products for immediate use in all hospitals of the NHS in England and Wales.
  8. GAO RFID Releases Unique Software For RFID Bluetooth Reader 7/11/2008
    GAO RFID has developed and recently released unique, new, multiple-input software for its series of Class II Bluetooth RFID Readers. The software is ready for use for PCs which have a Bluetooth adaptor or are otherwise Bluetooth enabled and runs on most Windows Operating systems including XP and Vista. In its current version the software allows for up to four Bluetooth reader inputs on a single PC or laptop computer - this is a first for RFID Bluetooth reader software.
  9. Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Hospital Further Increases Patient Safety With Medication Bar Code Scanning 7/10/2008
    Kaiser Permanente announced today that Panorama City is the first Kaiser Permanente hospital in Southern California to implement medication bar code scanning technology to confirm that the right patient gets the prescribed medication in the appropriate dose.
  10. Fujitsu Integrates KnowledgeLake Connect With Award-Winning ScanSnap S300 Scanner 7/7/2008
    KnowledgeLake Inc., the leading provider of document imaging and capture technologies for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc., the market leader in document imaging scanners and services, today announced the integration of KnowledgeLake Connect with the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300.