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  1. Healthcare Bar Coding Applications — Beyond Unit Dose 7/16/2004
    Recently, there has been widespread interest in incorporating bar coding technology into healthcare facilities. This interest is driven not only by pending government regulations on patient safety and privacy, but by other factors as well, such as the increasing shortage of pharmacists and nurses, and the constant desire to cut costs in the healthcare industry. Submitted by Datamax
  2. New Data Reveals Nurse Certification Key Component of Patient Safety and Recruitment and Retention Programs 12/20/2002
    American Association of Critical-Care Nurses releases white paper and supporting data as nursing shortage grows more serious...
  3. Physician visits increase for older patients 7/19/2001
    A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey on doctor visits reveals that while Americans overall visited the doctor at about the same rate from 1985 through 1999...
  4. Physician profiling could boost US prescription rates by 30% 6/6/2001
    The availability of data on physicians’ prescription patterns will improve detailing effectiveness in the US...
  5. Early results of website-based health management interventions study outlined 5/30/2001
    Health professionals attending the recent American Occupational Health Conference in San Francisco got a glimpse of the year-to-date findings...
  6. Artificial Blood: A solution to blood shortages? 5/25/2001
    In many ways, blood is to the healthcare system what oil is to the transportation system...
  7. Chicago Hospital Uses Non-surgical Channeling Device to Treat Heart Disease 1/13/2000
    Cardiac surgeons at Chicago’s Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center performed a new non-surgical treatment for severe coronary artery heart disease on a 67-year-old Evansville, IN man...
  8. System speeds aPTT results 7/14/1999
    Care of patients with acute coronary syndromes centers around minimizing the opportunity for thrombus formation in the coronary artery.
  9. Surgical Center Finds Value in Skytron Lights and Tables 6/17/1999
    The 45,000 sq. ft. Grand Valley Surgical Center (Grand Rapids, MI) is one of the new freestanding outpatient surgical facilities spreading across the country.
  10. Blood monitor helps saves time—and life—at hospital 6/3/1999