Product Description
This is a practical guide to how bar code (and other related technologies)can be implemented to enhance healthcare delivery. It explains many effective uses of technology in hospitals and other provider settings. In addition to describing applications, the book includes chapters on cost justification and inolementation.
About the Author
Karen M. Longe is president of Karen Longe & Associates a firm specializing in the implementation of AIDC in the healthcare industry. Ms. Longe’s extensive experience includes marketing management positions within the healthcare and AIDC industry. In these positions she worked with healthcare professionals and AIDC manufacturers, distributors and software integrators to assure the development of applications and the dissemination of AIDC equipment and supplies that satisfy the needs of the healthcare market.
She has served on numerous industry bar code standards committees including the ANSI MH10.8, the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), and the Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF). She chaired the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) Provider Applications Standard committee and continues to serve on the Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) Bar Code Technical Committee. Ms. Longe initiated and continues to chair the Healthcare Committee for AIM USA.
Ms. Longe is an internationally recognized speaker and author. She is also the author of UPN Bar Labeling: A Guide for Implementation in Healthcare. Ms. Longe was honored to receive the prestigious Percival Award for her efforts to advance the use of bar coding in the healthcare industry.
