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Healthcare
Reducing the global impact of environmentally harmful anaesthetic gases using a medical de...
95% of anaesthetic gases used in an operation are not metabolised by the patient so a significant pr...
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Healthcare
Optimising medicine management and reducing waste: a digitised approach for Danish healthc...
The absence of a standardised tracking system in Central Denmark's hospitals had made it arduous for...
Markhot Ferenc Teaching Hospital: Measuring what’s measurable to improve patient care and safety
Healthcare
Markhot Ferenc Teaching Hospital: Measuring what’s measurable to improve patient care and ...
Most healthcare providers have significant amounts of information about their patients, yet they don...
Developing the GS1 monitoring tool: a standardised set of patient safety outcome measurements
Healthcare
Developing the GS1 monitoring tool: a standardised set of patient safety outcome measureme...
While some studies have investigated the efficacy of barcoding, the outcomes assessed across trials ...
Improving efficiency and safety through the automatic identification of medical devices at the University Clinical Centre, Gdańsk
Healthcare
Improving efficiency and safety through the automatic identification of medical devices at...
The University Clinical Centre (UCC) was founded by the Medical University of Gdańsk and is one of t...
Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital achieves significant efficiency improvements and traceability for surgical equipment
Healthcare
Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital achieves significant efficiency improvements and traceabilit...
Established in 1894, Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital is publicly financed, but operates as a non-profi...
Connected, continuous and complete: Implementing Scan4Safety using GS1 standards at the core of the patient pathway
Healthcare
Connected, continuous and complete: Implementing Scan4Safety using GS1 standards at the co...
Launched in England by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care in 2016, the Scan4Safety progra...
Implementing RFID-enabled technology for the transport of precious laboratory samples at St. James’s Hospital
Healthcare
Implementing RFID-enabled technology for the transport of precious laboratory samples at S...
Laboratory samples, such as cancerous tissues taken during a biopsy, are “precious” since a patient’...