Barcode bracelets safeguard patients. by LUCY ELKINS, Daily Mail. Once they revolutionised the weekly shop, but now barcodes are being used in hospitals to identify patients and so help to reduce ...

Memorial Health System of East Texas says it is now the only hospital in East Texas to carry a brand new identification system that will reduce the risk for medication mix-ups or other mistakes. The ...

The bracelet can be printed and encoded onsite as a patient is admitted, the company reports, and it can then track that individual’s location via a built-in RFID tag. The system leverages SATO’s ...

Bar codes on patient bracelets and patches to monitor vitals while patients sit in the waiting room are just two ways Hurley Medical Center is staying ahead of the curve, officials say. Hurley's ...

Auto-identification and bar-code systems provider eSunTech Canada, headquartered in Windsor, Ontario, with offices in Bel Air, Md. and Detroit, has launched a new RFID-enabled system designed to ...

WASHINGTON — Many of the plastic identity bracelets that hospital patients wear will soon have an added bit of information embossed on them — a bar code containing information designed to make ...