The concept of the barcode — an alphabet made up of thick and thin bars — came into being in the 1950s. It took another quarter of a century for one to be printed on product packaging and scanned.

With QuickBooks Pro or Premier, you can use a bar code scanner to scan or enter a bar code manually when filling out the Item Name/Number field for new or existing entries in your company file. These ...

Companies are piloting a solution from software company ProGlove to track how efficiently goods are being stocked and picked from the warehouse each time workers scan a barcode on their glove. The ...

Before the creation of the scanner and barcodes, SA and its retail stores only had one method available to ascertain a correct assessment of what stock remained on the shelves and in the storeroom.

Has anybody done much bar code scanning w/ an iPod Touch. Spurred by the Inventory Software on OS X thread, I've picked up a copy of Home Inventory, which has an iOS app that does bar code scanning. I ...

New Six-Year Agreement Marks the First GPO Contract for ICU Medical's Breakthrough Automated Sterile Compounding System for the Accurate, Safe, and Efficient Preparation of Hazardous Drugs, Set to ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

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