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Posts tagged "the future of barcodes"

Why GS1 US Healthcare Should Recommend Only 2D GS1 Barcode Labeling.

Okay, I already know my title question is not  going to happen. GS1 isn’t really in the “barcode as a data container” standards business, they are in the “barcode as a unique pointer to the GDSN database” standards business. I’ve been sitting on versions of this blog post for a couple of months and it was only...

GS1 Ireland CEO Jim Bracken Profiles Future of Healthcare

This article appearing awhile back in SiliconRepublic.com out of Dublin carries the author’s name – Jim Bracken — but doesn’t offer his background or affiliation. In fact, Jim Bracken, the author of this Viewpoint entitled, “Curing the patient,” is the CEO of GS1 Ireland. The only major tip-off to that is the very last sentence of Mr. Bracken’s long...

Speaking of Barcodes: Part 3 of 3 (the future)

In this somewhat long Part 3, we will be very far afield of GS1 labeling in healthcare. What we’ll be talking about is just now becoming visible on the barcode horizon. (Contrary to the media predictions, the future of the barcode is not RFID tagged labels. We’ll be examining a barcode future that has orders of magnitude more capacity...

Speaking of Barcodes: Part 2 of 3

The first major evolutionary step for the barcode as an information proxy was to encode info in more than just one “linear” direction and by and large these types of barcodes usually look like a little square of dots and dashes, rather than uniform-height hashmarks running left to right. They transform the encoding density of the barcode and are called 2D...

Speaking of Barcodes: Part 1 of 3

I will stray a bit afield of the immediacy of GS1 labeling in medicine and the healthcare supply chain to talk about what’s possible now and what’s possible for healthcare and barcodes in the future. This was spurred, as many blog entries often are, by reading someone else’s blog. An old colleague of mine, and a talented, savvy individual who...