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Data Capture Solutions for the Healthcare Industry
Unmatched Experience Datalogic Scanning’s Experience Unmatched in the Market Datalogic Scanning has over 30 year’s knowledge, experience and expertise within the automatic identification and data capture industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high performance point-of-sale scanners and scanner/scales for retail applications, Datalogic Scanning also offers the broadest range of handheld readers available today, including all three handheld reading technology types: Linear Imagers, 2D Imagers and Laser Scanners. Offering both narrowband radio and Bluetooth® wireless technology, Datalogic is the market leader at providing cordless data collection solutions.
Providing the right product to match the unique needs of industry is the core strength of Datalogic Scanning. Today, Datalogic bar code readers are widely deployed in healthcare, pharmaceutical and laboratory services around the world. Applications range from bedside scanning, patient tracking, document handling, prescription dispensing and laboratory sample identification. Datalogic Scanning also works with leading healthcare cart manufacturers to offer completely integrated solutions for mobile computing, nursing and medication stations.
Adopting Bar Code Technology Bar code technology can significantly reduce, and often eliminate medical errors due to mismatching patients with their care, ensuring the right patient receives the right treatment at the right time. Bar coding can also be used for fast, accurate data capture in records management, equipment tracking, security checks, patient point-ofcare, pharmacy administration and laboratory specimens. Employed in a more traditional role, bar code technology can streamline healthcare organizations’ stock control and logistics management. Bar code technology offers patients, clinicians and managers genuine, demonstrable benefits in terms of safety, provision of care, efficiency, and better decision-making based on real-time data and other numerous cost saving opportunities.
Key Benefits • Speed and Accuracy Bar code readers ensure fast, completely accurate data capture and recall at a fraction of the cost of slow, error-prone, manual data entry methods. • Reliability Bar code technology enables data to be captured, analyzed and used in real-time. This allows clinicians and managers to make informed decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information rather than partial or historical data. • Productivity The adoption of a bar code solution often automates time- consuming, error-prone manual activities saving time, reducing costs and freeing valuable resources to be better used elsewhere. • Tracking Items can be assigned a unique bar code as a label, patients can receive a bar coded wristband or employees can use coded ID badges enabling easy identification, verification, location and access control. This simple function ensures patient safety and security, improves stock control and safeguards valuable equipment.
Datalogic Scanning offers a comprehensive range of corded and cordless handheld bar code readers and presentation scanners capable of meeting the most demanding healthcare, pharmaceutical and laboratory service needs.
Bar Codes in Healthcare Applications Patient Admissions and Administration • Patient Records: Bar codes on requisition forms, test results, x-ray films, medical charts, labels, wristbands and records provide a clear audit trail. Patient Safety and Clinical Care Delivery • Drug Identification: Bar coding can help eliminate counterfeit or expired drugs from being distributed or entering the supply chain. • Bedside Medication: Delivering the right drug, to the right person, at the right time. • Sterilization and Decontamination Area: Small bar codes can enable the automatic identification confirming when and which instruments have been sterilized. • Blood Infusions: Bar coding blood and other products helps eliminate the potential for incorrect infusions. • Lab Work: Guarantees the right tests are performed. • Specimen Collection: Ensures the correct patient receives the right analysis. • Wrist Band Scanning: Positive identification at the point of care. • Mobile Nursing Carts
Inventory Management • Bar codes enable hospitals to accurately monitor and maintain inventories of medical/surgical items, office supplies, linen, uniforms, drugs and clean materials. • Bar codes can help establish patterns of usage identifying areas of stock surplus, shrinkage and shortage. This can lead to both cost savings and improved standards of care delivery. • Bar code systems eliminate many of the time-consuming manual elements of inventory management such as completing forms, preparing reports, and issuing requisitions.
Matching Healthcare Challenges Choosing the right bar code reader starts with the task or tasks it is expected to perform and identifying the type of bar codes (symbologies) that must be read, such as 1D and 2D codes. How and where are the codes printed? It might be the curved surface of a wristband or highly reflective plastic of an identity badge, or drug blister pack. Environmental factors such as lighting conditions, operating temperatures or rough handling should also be considered. Other considerations include: • Technology - Laser Scanners – Mostly for 1D code reading. - Linear and Full Area Imagers – Ability to decode 1D or stacked 2D codes. • Symbologies (Bar Code Types) to be Read - 1D Linear Codes – Most typical, holding a maximum of 80 characters. - 2D Codes – Complex codes holding a maximum of 5000 characters. - Resolution of symbologies – Size and density of label types. • Corded or Cordless Bar Code Reading - Wireless connectivity – Bluetooth® Wireless Technology or Datalogic STAR Cordless System™ for narrow band radio communications. - Battery life and charging times – Important for around the clock care. • Usability • Handheld readers vs. hands-free presentation style readers • Power Supply and Consumption – Critical considerations for mobile cart applications. • Speed to read – Critical for emergency applications. • Accuracy – Above all else, for healthcare, captured data must be accurate. • Good Read Feedback – Datalogic’s exclusive green light good read feedback features a green spot directly on the code allowing for silent scanning so that your patients remain undisturbed. • Dependability - Depth-of-Field – Typical reading distances required for optimal productivity. - Durability – Dependable performance in demanding environments. - Ergonomics – Weight and form factors important for extended use. - IP Rating - Sealing protection against moisture and dust. - Product Reliability– Datalogic products’ demonstrated ability to continually perform over time, reducing total cost of ownership.
Many Datalogic handheld bar code readers have Datalogic’s exclusive GreenSpotTM for superior good read feedback.
Datalogic Scanning Products for Healthcare Applications Datalogic Scanning offers a variety of 2D products ideal for the pharmaceutical industry. Capable of retaining over 60 times more information than traditional 1D bar codes, 2D (two dimensional) symbologies offer a range of advantages for healthcare, pharmaceutical and laboratory service applications. The combination of small size, readability from any angle, low contrast requirements and damage tolerance means that 2D codes are ideal for applying to almost any packaging surface such as foil, glass, plastic or metal and even directly onto products, from contact lenses and surgical instruments to medicine bottles and inhalers. Datalogic’s heavy-duty bar code readers offer ruggedness, reliability and excellent reading performance, the general purpose readers are better suited to light duty application. Mobile (or cordless) models in both industrial and general purpose products give operators the complete freedom of movement. Presentation style readers are optimal for countertop and hands-free applications.
QuickScan® Series – Entry level products for light-duty and administrative applications.
QuickScan L
QuickScan Mobile
QS6500
QS6500BT
Gryphon™ Series – Premium, feature-rich solution for light-duty applications. The versatile and high performance Gryphon series of readers offers models to meet a variety of bar code reading requirements. The extensive options within the Gryphon Series offer scaleable radio solutions and share a modular design and are open to upgrades.
Gryphon Desk
Gryphon 2D
Gryphon Mobile
Gryphon BT
Magellan® Series –The world’s first omnidirectional imaging based presentation scanners, the Magellan 1000i and 1400i excel at capturing hard-to-read bar codes. Each supports both presentation and sweep scanning styles and also has a targeted scanning mode for reading close-proximity bar codes. Either product is ideal for point-of-care mobile carts, laboratory specimen tracking and processing, and hospital pharmacy applications.
Magellan 1000i
Magellan 1400i
PowerScan® Series –the PowerScan series of industrial readers delivers top performance for demanding use and are ideal for pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratory services, such as cold storage.
PowerScan 7000
PowerScan 7000BT
PowerScan 8500
**Minimum Resolution
Standard
High Density
IP42
Standard
High Density
IP30
Extended
Standard
IP52
Extended
Standard
IP52
Extended
High Density
Standard
High Density
Extended
High Density
IP30
Extended
High Density
IP30
Standard
Standard
IP52
Standard
Standard
IP52
Standard
Standard
IP51
Datalogic Green Spot
*Depth of Field
***Environmental Sealing
Product Highlights
GS1 DataBar (Composites)
PDF-417
2D Codes / Image Capture
Supported Symbologies 1D Codes
Cordless Radio Communications
Corded
Mobility
QuickScan® Series QuickScan L
QuickScan Mobile
LIGHT DUTY PRODUCTS
QS6500
Datalogic STAR Cordless System
QS6500BT
Bluetooth Wireless Technology
Gryphon™ Series Gryphon Desk Gryphon 2D
Gryphon Mobile
Datalogic STAR Cordless System
Gryphon Bluetooth
Bluetooth Wireless Technology
IP30 IP30
Magellan® Series 1000i 1400i
Optional
Optional
HEAVY DUTY PRODUCTS
Lynx™ Series Lynx BT
Bluetooth Wireless Technology
PowerScan® Series 7000
7000 BT
D8500
Bluetooth Wireless Technology
Extended Plus
High Density
IP65
Extended Plus
High Density
IP65
Standard
High Density
IP65
*Depth of Field:
Standard = Typical Reading Range 0 to 10.0 in / 0 to 25.4 cm Extended = Typical Reading Range 0 to 15.0 in / 0 to 38.1 cm Extended Plus = Typical Reading Range 0 to 30.0 in / 0 to 76.2 cm
**Minimum Resolution:
Standard = Reads Typical Bar Codes 5 mil (0.125 mm) and higher High Density = Reads Typical Bar Codes 3 mil / 4 mil (0.076 mm / 0.10 mm)
***Environmental Sealing
Represents product regulatory rating for sealing against particles (dust) and liquids (water). For the number rating, higher is better. Digits represent rating against Dust/Water.
Datalogic Scanning, Inc. www.scanning.datalogic.com scanning@datalogic.com
Datalogic Scanning, Inc., is a member of the Datalogic Group which consists of three divisions that provide solutions to the healthcare market. In addition to Datalogic Scanning, Datalogic Mobile manufactures PDAs and mobile computers for data collection; and Datalogic Automation produces unattended scanning systems used in pharmaceutical manufacture.
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PowerScan and QuickScan are registered trademarks of Datalogic Scanning, Inc. Datalogic is a registered trademark of Datalogic S.p.A. in many countries and the Datalogic logo, 3GL, Dragon, Double GoodRead LED, GreenSpot, Gryphon, Heron, Lynx, and the Star cordless system are trademarks of Datalogic S.p.A. The Bluetooth word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc and any use of such marks by Datalogic is under license All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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