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Article: Strategic planning for an integrated bar code system. (Bar Codes, part 2)
- Article from:
- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Labeling specimens at collection makes patient ID more reliable while saving the authors' lab $22,000 a year in hematology and chemistry alone. Series coordinator: Bernard L. Kasten, M.D.
OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW by integrating a bar code specimen identification system into our hospital information system (HIS) and laboratory information system (LIS) has been a major thrust of our management effort and planning strategy over the past five years at Bethesda Hospitals, a 725-bed, two-site, not-for-profit Cincinnati facility.
We had long recognized that in the increasingly cost-conscious and cost-constrained environment confronting the clinical laboratory we would ...