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 ...

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 ...

Warnings provided by the Bridge Medical bar-coding system, now installed in 10 of Sutter's acute-care facilities, including six hospitals in the Bay Area, have prevented 2,600 potential errors that ...

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 have developed a way to ...

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 ...

PALM HARBOR -- HCA Inc. is spending more than $300 million to ensure its patients get the right medications at the right time and in the right frequency. HCA West Florida division, based in Palm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...