After years of being decked out in monochromatic stripes, the bar code is going color. The bar code has already undergone some changes. Though the standard, striped variety is still ubiquitous on ...

Almost all medications given in the hospital soon must bear a supermarket-style bar code that health workers will match to patients to help ensure they get the right dose of the right drug at the ...

The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to “read” a bar code, according to Motorola Inc. The company has detailed a few of the pertinent facts from that day, ...

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