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Healthcare Bar Codes

Microsoft Tags – Medical Quack Bar Codes Bar Codes for FDA Recalls-Good Idea?  Search this blog with keywords barcodes or Microsoft Tags-Tons of posts where it could have helped!  There is no bigger poster child than Johnson and Johnson and actually through some folks I know, the idea has been floated up there a while back.  I have added many other posts and will try to update the links here on bar codes and healthcare, Microsoft Tags so past postings are easier to find.  I’ll come back here and add more when I have time as I think I have about 60 or so articles on the Medical Quack!  Many of the links have videos so check them out.  Below you can read a special feature from May of 2011 where I discussed their use both with devices and drugs.   

Micro-Cap Review Special Feature -FDA Recalls Never End

 


Johnson and Johnson McNeil Healthcare Group Recalls Children’s Over the Counter Liquid Medications



Counterfeit Alli Warning from the FDA – We Should Be Using Technology for Easier Identification

We currently have the big Triad mess ongoing….

Triad Group Taints Smith and Nephew Device Company With Recalled Wipes How Many More Are Out There Under Private Labels?


FDA Moves in on Triad and Seizes $6 Million Dollars of Product-The Medicated Wipe Recalls Issues Continue - Triad is an Outsource for Several Fortune 25 Companies
Also from last year, the big heist at Eli Lilly, bar codes would have been real helpful.

Eli Lilly Pill Heist in Connecticut – Worth a Few Million on the Black Market And Should Have Been “Tagged” for Identification To Help Identify Reselling By the Thieves



YOU CAN STILL VOTE FOR BAR CODES TO USE WITH RECALLS AND IF YOU RAD A LITTLE FURTHER HERE, IT SOVLES A LOT OF OTHER ISSUES LIKE FINDING STOLEN DRUGS TOO.  ONE TECHNOLOGY CAN SOLVE A LOT OF EVILS! image_thumb



Microsoft Tags in Healthcare – Comments and Demonstration at “Microsoft Connected Conference” with Surface

Microsoft Receives Patent-Techniques to Create Counterfeit and Tamper Resistant Labels Using Fiber Optic Strands-Bar Codes Getting Closer for Drug/Device Recalls?



RazCode/Windows Tags – Bar Coding to Add Information to PHRs, EHRs, and More…


RAZCODE (Microsoft Tags) Using Smart Phones to authenticate MDs When e-Prescribing Controlled Substances

FDA Publishes Information on How to Identify Recalls – Why Not Scan That Stent With A Cell Phone and Make It Easy for the Public and Manufacturers To Keep Up, Notify And Automate Compliance

Connecting HealthVault/Google Health and More to RazCode Encrypted Microsoft Tags – Automate Data Input





Tags for Use in Healthcare – Medical Stents, Medications - One Scan Away From Safety Information in Real Time

How Does a Grocery Store Chain Kick the FDA, Pharma and Healthcare in the Butt When It Comes to Recalls

Microsoft Tags on CBS Early Show – Wake Up FDA, Pharma and Medical Device Companies –Scan Those Drugs, Medical Devices and Synchronize with an FDA Tag Data Base – Recalls, Theft Tracking and More….


Microsoft Tag Bar Codes–Who’s Been Scanning the Medical Quack–The Bing Heat Map Tells All And Could Help Find Stolen or Expired Drugs and Devices With This Methodology

You can scan your Vodka, but not medicine!

Skyy Vodka Using Microsoft Tags-We Can Find Out More About What We are Drinking-Would Be Nice if Tylenol & Others Did This


Microsoft Tags Doing Their Job on Boxes of Special K At the Grocery Store-Working with Lucky Magazine to Encourage Healthy Eating to Lose Weight

This IT person says, yes, combine with RFID at the hospital as they already work with bar coding. image image


Microsoft Tags in Healthcare – Comments and Demonstration at “Microsoft Connected Conference” with Surface


Tracking Medical Device Recalls – Sounds Like A Good Place for a Microsoft Tag Data Base at the FDA


Counterfeit Drug Factories Outside the US-60 Minutes Reports (Video)-Solution With Bar Codes for Pharma, FDA, DEA, Medical Devices


Insulin Pump Problems and Recalls – FDA Get Those Tags Out There So Consumers Can Identify Them Easily with Cell Phones

FDA Recalls Penumbra Aneurysm Coil–Potential to Detach & Migrate Causing a Stroke or Blood Clots While Being Patient Is Being Treated for A Brain Aneurysm


Abbott Diabetes Care Recalls Tons of Glucose Test Strips–The US Has the FDA Recall Blues-Solution Has Been Touted Here for a Year-It’s Time for a Fix–Readers Have Voted


Medical Devices Controlling Costs and Creating Tag Registries for Implanted Devices Could Help

American Regent Recalls Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate Injections Due to Particulates in Product-Need Barcodes

Stent Catheter Recall-NanoCross Dilation Catheter Could Break During Use–Need Bar Code Technology to “Scan that Catheter”!


Bristol-Myers Recalls Coumadin Blood Thinner For Being Over Potent



RAZCODE (Microsoft Tags) Using Smart Phones to authenticate MDs When e-Prescribing Controlled Substances