Hospitals and Healthcare barcode applications

Tracking Laundry

The Pass system keeps track of the issue of bed linen, gowns and other items of laundry, monitoring their progress to and from the laundry store to the wards and to and from the laundry

Asset tracking

Hospitals and care homes have a number of valuable assets. These include items such as laptops, PCs, printers and other non-medical equipment held on the ward. Reports can be run on the location of any given item and the history of its movement in the case of loss. There's also a depreciation module showing when the item was bought and its estimated current value

Issue of equipment to patients

The Pass system can track the movement of items such as oxygen cylinders, breathing apparatus, crutches, zimmers etc.

Outpatients

The system tracks the issue of temporary loans to patients of items like crutches and Zimmer frames

Patient sample labels

Using a PDA and a portable Bluetooth printer, labels can be applied to samples taken from patients. The system can then also track with barcodes the destination and receipt of the samples, and then further be used to record the test results

Sample tests and results

When the sample is received in a laboratory its barcode is scanned logging the receipt of the sample. Tests are then carried out on the sample and recorded on the Pass system. Use of a tethered scanner in the laboratory greatly speeds up the recording of these tests and Pass system will log the result of each test using drop down look at tables combined with manual entry. When the samples need to be stored the pass system will also log where they are kept in the date and time they were put away.

Internal Mail Tracking

Couriers and van drivers uses pdas and Locator Mail to track collection and deilvery of internal mail around the internal hospital sites such as wards and clinics and external linked sites such as health clinics and doctors surgeries.