The same technology you would find in a grocery store check-out line is coming to a hospital near you! Bar codes are linking patients to their prescribed medications, cutting down on the number of ...

West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur, La., has implemented bar code technology designed to help tackle medication errors, reflecting a larger nationwide trend in which hospitals adopt health IT ...

A hospital has introduced a system to give babies barcode wristbands rather than hand-written bands, it said today. Kettering General Hospital in Northamptonshire is introducing the new system which ...

Valencia, CA, May 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PDC Healthcare, a global leader of innovative identification and patient safety solutions, announced today the release of ScanBand ® DR, its newest line ...

A GROUND-breaking scheme to put supermarket-style barcodes on patient wristbands has been launched at a city hospital. Health Minister Lord Hunt was at Heartlands Hospital yesterday to see the new ...