I was reading this interesting article on seafood fraud and traceability in The Wall Street Journal the other day. I had no idea of the scale of fraud in the food industry (not just seafood) which is estimated to cost $10 billion a year in the US alone. Add to this the current issues in […]
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Custom Labels Speeds Up Tests in Diagnostic Lab
One of our clients is a large regional hospital with a renowned oncology department. It was considered important that the tests sent to the lab from cancer patients get priority handling so the labels are color coded to make them stand out from the other test samples that would be in process at the same time. The […]
BarTender Printing Blank Labels with Excel?
You know the problem, you are using Excel as the database to print your labels using BarTender and when you select the records, BarTender insists on selecting a lot of blank rows. This is irritating because you’ll either have blank labels coming out of your printer, or you’ll need to manually deselect those unwanted rows. One of […]
Asset Tracking for Hospitals
If you are responsible for keeping track of assets in a healthcare facility, you probably have your hands full! Two of the main types of expensive assets that need to be kept under control are IT products and medical equipment. There was a time when the IT assets were easy to track – PCs, servers […]
Preparing For UDI
The FDA has recently updated its draft version of the UDI rule to include its proposal for the UDI system and tracking database. The Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) would keep track of all medical devices’ unique identifiers. In a previous draft (July 2010), the FDA defined a phased in approach to compliance depending […]
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