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27 January 2016

GS1 demonstrator sites announced

Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share £12
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5 July 2013

Microsoft helps clamp down on fake meds

A Europe-wide system for clamping down on counterfeit medicines moved a step closer this week with the selection of Microsoft
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4 April 2013

Nottingham deploys Bloodhound

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying MSoft’s blood tracking system.
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8 July 2010

Great Ormond Street barcodes wristbands

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has rolled out barcoded wristbands from Dakota Healthcare. The wristband system, which
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11 May 2010

US study finds barcodes make meds safer

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine has concluded that using barcodes as a verification technology with an
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17 November 2009

Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that
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16 December 2008

European drugs to carry barcodes

Medicines sold across Europe will have to carry barcodes and other improved security mechanisms, under proposals unveiled by the European
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9 October 2008

Great Ideas

Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust’s Shanaz Sohal and Jo Murfett discuss its blood tracking pilot.
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13 June 2008

Portsmouth deploys electronic document management

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location
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17 December 2007

New blood tracking system used across Europe

An image-based blood tracking data capture solution is helping to save lives and reduce waste in hospitals across Europe. BloodTrack
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