Hospitals have a myriad of very important moving pieces to keep track of on a daily basis. Keeping an accurate count of medicine, patients, files, lab equipment and specimens, to name a few, can be a daunting task for any medical facility. The good news is, Zebra provides many healthcare solutions to help simplify the tracking of critical hospital inventories. Below you will find solutions to the most common issues healthcare institutions face:

Admission: Hospital admissions staff welcome patients and gather important patient medical information. Recent advances in wristband printing allows for a patient to wear a wristband with a barcode. Simply scan the wristband with a healthcare scanner or mobile computer to obtain a patients records, in real time.

Patient Care: Real time updates of a patient’s medical records can dramatically increase services and care provided by a healthcare facility. Using healthcare scanning and mobile computing devices can help significantly cut down on errors.  Scheduling appointments, sending prescriptions and reviewing patient history, are only a few of the solutions available when using Zebra healthcare products.

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The convenience and improved traceability provided by on-demand printed wristbands, most healthcare providers at all levels are embracing their use. Zebra is an established leader in dedicated wristband printers with the HC100 printer being the ideal solution for applications generating a volume of wristbands on a daily basis.

For applications that are printing much lower volumes Zebra also has several solutions to utilize a standard laser printer in place of a dedicated printer to produce high quality wristbands. Their LaserBand line of wristbands come on sheets that readily fit into a standard printer with some of the same features found on the dedicated HC100 solution.
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