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Madeline Brownstone

What is a Standard - 0 views

  • Nomenclature is challenging because "technical specification" has different meanings in different areas of the world.  For example, a technical specification in CEN is a lower grade, less permanent deliverable likely to be revised.  A standard, on the other hand, is intended to be stable and products shall conform to the requirements.
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      Standard is more stable than a technical specification.
  • to limit how a specific technology will be used to carry or represent the data.
  • GS1’s Global Trade Identification Number (GTIN) is an example of a high-level application standard that is completely independent of a technical specification because it can be applied regardless of whether bar code, RFID or even human-readable characters are used to represent it.
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      GTIN standard is independent--can be used with bar code, RFID or human-readable characters
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    Technology Standards vs Application Standard
Madeline Brownstone

Healthcare Standards Development - 0 views

  • facilitate electronic communications by developing appropriate standards for information exchange among all health care trading partners.
  • ncluding electronic data interchange message formats, bar code labeling data standards, universal numbering systems, and the provision of databases which assure common identifiers.
  • Standardized manufacturer, customer, and product identification codes, including the Labeler Identification Code (LIC), Health Industry Number (HIN®), and Universal Product Number (UPN®) and the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) Standards
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      Labeler Identification Code (LIC) Health Industry Number (HIN®) Universal Product Number (UPN®) Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC)
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    Healthcare Standards Development
Madeline Brownstone

What are Standards? - 0 views

  • Bar Code standards have been developed mostly by AIM (http://www.aimglobal.org) though some of these have now been adopted by ISO. See a summary of Bar Code Standards.
  • An example of the use of the barcode technology standards would be the use by the Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC)
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      Health Industry Business Communications Council
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    distinguishes types of standards -- Technology and Applicaton
Madeline Brownstone

UPN Repository - 0 views

  • Buying organizations, such as the US Department of Defense (DOD), require all manufacturers doing business with them to identify and bar code their products with the UPN. The objective is to make the UPN the single ordering number for medical/surgical products.
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    US Govt requires UPN to do business with them
Madeline Brownstone

RFID Casestudies - 1 views

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    Excellent selection of case studies in all areas of impact
Madeline Brownstone

News: LA Marathon benefits from RFID timing - RFID (radio frequency identification), tr... - 1 views

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    Using RFID in marathon races
Madeline Brownstone

RFID - The Technology - 1 views

  • Another form of tag is often called the smart label. This is really a paper (or similar material) label with printing, but also with an RFID tag embedded in it. Examples are shown below (with the antenna structure shown in the corner).
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    Basics on how RFID works\nALSO: RFID embedded in paper labels such as baggage tags
Madeline Brownstone

Boston launches flu shot tracking - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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    tracking patients
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