OPINION
Healthcare remains a big growth
opportunity, and rightly so. The
opportunities to use Auto ID
technology to improve patient,
specimen and treatment
identification are colossal – and all
for a good cause. Anything which
helps to reduce the 850,000
‘adverse events’ experienced
annually within the NHS, often
caused by simple misidentification,
lifts a burden off health workers
and can quite literally save lives.
Positive future
Generally speaking, Auto ID is now
a mature technology, however the
next few years will continue to see
significant organic growth. Why?
Because the industry is moving
the technology ever closer to the
‘point of application’. Scanning A new wave of wearable computers is improving picking efficiency in distribution centres.
devices are becoming increasingly
smaller, integrating with portable technology will soon be part of our printer, and new standards such surgical instruments to patients,
devices and communicating everyday lives and a new wave of as DataBar and EANCOM and field workers such as service
wirelessly with remote computer wearable computers is improving from GS1 are paving the way engineers can now communicate
systems. Active tags can be picking efficiency in distribution for the increased use of more with their office systems at the
maintenance free, with the ability centres. Thanks to mobile printers, sophisticated tracking processes point of activity. The future is
to hold changing asset information label printing no longer requires throughout the supply chain. The certainly bright and full of
over the lifetime of a tag; the a walk to the corner of the healthcare sector is embracing opportunity for companies
introduction of e-identity warehouse to queue for a shared Auto ID to track everything from investing in Auto ID.circlesolid
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