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Enhancing patient safety by implementing an electronic system for medical orders and GS1 barcode scanning
Healthcare
Enhancing patient safety by implementing an electronic system for medical orders and GS1 b...
The Paediatric Teaching Clinical Hospital wanted to transition from its manual, paper-based processe...
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...
Enabling traceability at Dijon University Hospital through identification of all rooms and locations
Healthcare
Enabling traceability at Dijon University Hospital through identification of all rooms and...
The University Hospital CHU Dijon is a 1,700 bed hospital employing more than 6,300 people, collecti...
Scan4Safety: Giving time back to patient care at Dublin’s Tallaght University Hospital
Healthcare
Scan4Safety: Giving time back to patient care at Dublin’s Tallaght University Hospital
Clinical staff at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) were spending a large proportion of their time ...
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 ...
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’...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals takes huge savings in time and spends it on patient care
Healthcare
Leeds Teaching Hospitals takes huge savings in time and spends it on patient care
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the largest in England with more than 2,000 beds...
Realising more than £1m of savings through an effective inventory management improvement programme
Healthcare
Realising more than £1m of savings through an effective inventory management improvement p...
National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England are being driven to improve operational efficiencies...