President Clinton has urged greater use of bar code systems to prevent potentially fatal transfusions from mismatched blood.
The work of turning the specifications into internationally accepted standards will be handed off next month to EPCglobal, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council, which oversees the use of bar codes, and EAN International, a European commercial standards setting organization.
Karin Kallander Monitor drug stocks: One technological solution could be through the use of bar coding of medicines, to track and trace stocks, sales, brands across geographies in real time.
Technology- The use of bar codes is now ingrained in many industries is the United States and in other countries, including postal service, supermarkets, the railroad industry, schools, and hospitals.
Dislocation of pectus bars after minimal invasive repair of pectus excavatum has been reduced by use of bar stabilizers.
The use of bar-clip attachment system with distally placed o'ring attachment design optimized the stress distribution.
Results show that required fire resistance in HSS columns can be obtained through the use of bar- or steel fibre-reinforcement in HSC.
Although the EZ Appli bar code application is just getting its legs in Japan, Qualcomm executives believe it will gain traction as carriers make it more widely available and developers find more ways to make use of bar code scanning.
"It's absolutely a completely novel use of bar coding in the area of consumer protection," says David Schindel, who leads the Consortium for the Barcode of Life in Washington, D.C.
Thus use of bar coding allowed many samples to be pooled for sequence determination, then the reads could be sorted into individual experiments by bar code.
