Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

Software maker is licensing a new format that uses colorful triangles, rather than black and white lines, to pack more data into less space. Images: Microsoft's multicolor bar code During her years at ...

April 1, 2002 – I often hear skeptics say that RFID will never take off because tags will never be as cheap as a bar code. Why? Because you can print a bar code right on the box or wrapping of an item ...

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 ...

As readers of this publication know, mobile is not just another customer communications medium – it is rapidly evolving into an effective marketing and sales channel, enabling consumers to get ...

Marketers, advertising agencies and brand departments have been giving a lot of attention recently to the emerging mobile bar code market. And why not? Mobile bar codes offer marketers an exciting ...

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has detailed a few of the pertinent facts from that day, ...

The Food and Drug Administration is phasing in rules that will require bar codes on hospital medication packets to guard against errors that cause an estimated 7,000 deaths annually. Inside hospital ...

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The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...