The new bar coding strategy encompasses the early, as well as the advanced, stages of the drug discovery process where more focused libraries are designed to refine the leads from the early screening, ...

The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old.

Detecting biowarfare agents in the field will become a lot easier thanks to a new barcode system based on biosensing nanowires developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers.

Bar-coding system SurgiCount and its distribution partner, Cardinal Health Inc., are rolling out a bar-coding system that helps operating-room nurses and technicians keep track of sponges and ...

That's why healthcare experts like Gary Mecklenburg, CEO of Northwestern Memorial Healthcare System and former chairman of trustees for the American Hospital Association, thinks bar-coding is a ...

Why can't you rely on the audible "beep" from a bedside barcode scanning system to verify medication?

The same technology that scans your lettuce and ground beef at the grocery store checkout is being used at Rice Memorial Hospital to increase medication safety.

A New York-based firm says it has developed a serialized bar coding system to track products through the supply chain, as an alternative to RFID.

The barcode part of the system – developed by Chris Harrison, Robert Xiao and Scott Hudson – consists of a series of parallel grooves and ridges on the surface of an object designed to produce ...

Medication errors have dropped and the number of nurses using bar code medication administration systems and physicians using computerized order entry systems has soared at Kaiser Permanente, which ...

New Bar Coding System Helps Decode Drug Discovery Date: August 29, 2001 Source: Purdue University Summary: Researchers sorting through large numbers of chemical compounds to identify new drug ...

Detecting biowarfare agents in the field will become a lot easier thanks to a new barcode system based on biosensing nanowires developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers.