Innovation and Development

Innovation and Development

Introduction

The quality and productivity have improved significantly in various industries with the use of machine-readable automatic identification (ID) systems, comprising of bar codes, magnetic strips, or radio frequency labeling. Bar codes are widely used, and form one of the oldest components of machine readable ID system. The emergence of bar codes the misidentification errors have reduced to rates that range from one character in 15,000 to 36 trillion (Wald & Shojania, 2011).

Discussion

In health care, bar coding was described more than thirty years ago. It has significantly improved productivity and accuracy in the expected application of patient ...