Case Study – TSC Alpha 3R for Healthcare

TSCs barcode system ensures patient safety, streamlines hospital testing and specimen tracking

Market: Healthcare
Application: Expedited patient treatment and specimen tracking
Model: Alpha-3R

Background: With the aid of TSCs Alpha-3R portable printer, Taiwan hospitals are able to easily print patient information, nursing staff IDs and test tube labels, while expediting doctors  instructions to nursing staffs.

Solution: After a member of the nursing staff inspects a patient s record via computer, he or she downloads and double-checks the doctor s instructions. The Alpha-3R barcode printer is then used to print the patient s ID data on a label, along with test tube labels for patient specimens and an ID label identifying the attending nurse. When a patient undergoes a test, a hand-held computer (personal digital assistant) can be used to verify the name of the patient, identity of patient specimens and name of the attending nurse.

Benefits:
Automated wireless connection to lab-test instruments for improved specimen tracking.
Reduction of the time spent traveling between a patient s hospital bed and the nursing station.
Increased efficiency and quality-control of patient-specimen testing.
Elimination of noisy dot matrix printers (which can disturb patients), resulting in a reduction in paper costs. Read more

TSC releases software development kit for Apple mobile devices

TSC has released a software development kit (SDK) that provides developers with a complete toolset for deploying and running labeling applications on Apple mobile devices.

SDK, v5.0~6.1, provides all the technical elements   libraries, documentation, framework and samples   that make it easy to create feature-rich custom label-printing applications for an Apple iPad, iPhone or MAC iOS platform.

Please visit http://www.tscprinters.com/cms/theme/index-39.html to learn more about the end-to-end process of running Apple iOS applications using TSCs iOS SDK.