Healthcare Applications where Newbury Data’s SecurPrint Solution can help support the 5 R’s.

Newbury Data’s SecurPrint solution for Citizen and Zebra thermal printers is a convenient way of producing the labels at any location in the hospital.

Bar codes, which have been used extensively in supply chain applications to reduce mistakes, speed up processes and cut costs, are equally useful in healthcare administration, only this time it’s people rather than products who are being identified and tracked, and any mistakes can be far more costly both emotionally and financially.

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Patient Identification

Patient identification, applying a validated bar code label to an existing or new wristband provides a critical first step in many patient safety improvement initiatives. Incorporating a bar code as well as text provides a vital extra safeguard against mistaken identity. Using 1. printed bar codes and text or 2. printed bar codes and text with encoded RFID data rather than hand-written information on wristbands also ensures that all required data is readable.

Building security is a top concern. Whether you need to identify people or control access, Zebra card printers give you the peace of mind that the right people have access to the right places. Produce on-demand, low cost, and professional visitor badges to keep your facility secure. Zebra card printers work with a variety of card-based access credentials, including proximity, magnetic stripe, and smart cards. With on-demand printing of visitor IDs, you can combine all the necessary functions of the ID card with the added security and convenience that only a Zebra printer can provide. See Positive Patient Information (PPI) solution

PPI Includes: Newbury Data PPI Software, TLP3844-Z Label/Wristband Printers, Zebra 330i ID Card Printers


Blood Transfusions
Blood transfusions are an area of extreme risk, where inaccurate identification can lead to potentially fatal errors. Blood bags are routinely bar-coded with their type, but when the bags are issued from the blood bank, it is important that the right blood gets to the right patient. Using TraceSOFT BTV Software and TraceSAFE compatibility labels with validated barcoded from SecurPrint with the intended patient’s details, including their bar-coded ID, enables additional safety checks to be made automatically before the blood is given.

TraceSOFT BTV & PPI automate identity verification to cut risks when the blood bank receives an order and issues blood to the patient, a TraceSAFE compatibility label is printed and attached to the blood bag. Before the transfusion is administered, the bar codes on both the patient’s wristband and the compatibility label are scanned by the TransSAFE verifier to confirm that the correct blood is being given to the correct patient.

Once confirmed TraceSOFT BTV can confirm and store the fate of blood information in line with the EU directive. See TraceSOFT BTV

TraceSOFT BTV Includes:

Newbury Data TraceSOFT BTV Software
TraceSAFE TAGS
Newbury Data TransSAFE Donation/Patient Safety Verifier
Zebra Z4M plus Printer with SecurPrint
Datalogic Heron Barcode Reader

Medical Records

Medical records that carry a printed label incorporating a bar code and text are a more reliable way to ensure that each patient’s record can be uniquely identified and tracked. In busy outpatients’ department, it is not unusual for there to be two patients attending who have similar names. Crosschecking a validated bar code printed via SecurPrint ensures that records do not get put into the wrong folder and it is a quicker and more accurate check than one done purely visually.

Laboratory Specimens

Laboratory specimens need to be accurately identified. Printing via SecurPrint and validating the bar code on the patient’s record, or the wristband if on the ward, ensures that the full and correct data can be transferred to the specimen label automatically.

Prescription Vial Labelling

The shrinking number of pharmacists and the growing number of new medications, packaging options, and patient privacy and safety requirements all add complexity to prescription processing. SecurPrint helps bring clarity, with labelling systems that add accuracy and efficiency. Discover how reliable, easy-to-use, SecurPrint thermal printer solutions deliver convenience and safety at the point of fill.