Wedge barcode scanners and serial barcode scanners both connect to a PC to scan barcodes into the system. They do not, however, work the same way and each has advantages and disadvantages. This ...

The concept of the barcode — an alphabet made up of thick and thin bars — came into being in the 1950s. It took another quarter of a century for one to be printed on product packaging and scanned.

With QuickBooks Pro or Premier, you can use a bar code scanner to scan or enter a bar code manually when filling out the Item Name/Number field for new or existing entries in your company file. These ...

To incentivize nurses to fully integrate bar-code scanning into their routine workflow, scanning rates were incorporated into their performance evaluations, with awards given to nurses and hospital ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care (BCPOC) technology to positively impact medication ...

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 ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...

A U.S. appeals court said the estate of late inventor Jerome Lemelson could no longer enforce bar-code scanning patents that had cost Ford Motor Co., IBM Corp. and other U.S. companies more than $1.3 ...