Guide to choosing labeling machines for medical laboratories, pharmacies, health care

The pandemic caused by the spread of Covid-19 has put a strain on the NHS, subjecting hospital facilities to great pressure although, asISTAT points out in its Annual Report 2021, “in 2020 outpatient and specialist services provided decreased by 20.3 percent compared to the previous year.”

Conversely, the pandemic crisis has also greatly accelerated the digitization process that has long been affecting the health care sector, both public and private. The need to handle large volumes of data and massive workflows required the adoption of appropriate technological equipment.

The health sector and the effects of Covid-19

In the aforementioned ISTAT Annual Report, it reports: “a significant decline in services during the pandemic, which follows the decrease observed in previous years,” which affected, in particular, the diagnostic and rehabilitation sectors.

The National Institute of Statistics also notes that the pandemic intercepted a moment of particular weakness in the NHS, also complicit in cuts in economic resources: between 2010 and 2018, as reported in the OASI 2020 Report (CERGAS – Bocconi), public funding for health care between 2010 and 2018 decreased by 4.6 percent although there was a “Growth in real health spending slightly above zero (+0.3 percent) between 2010 and 2018“.

Equipping oneself with state-of-the-art technologies that can simplify work management and optimize costs (both of devices, which are also available for rent and at competitive costs, and of processes) becomes, therefore, indispensable to stay abreast of the times and economic technological demands.

The new technological requirements

Pandemic emergency management strategies have progressively involved not only hospital facilities but also private pharmacies and laboratories, which have become strategic for diagnostic and tracking operations.

This has exacerbated the need to adopt new technologies to respond effectively to new requirements, particularly the management of large amounts of incoming and outgoing data. Printers, scanners, and labeling machines are just some of the devices now indispensable not only in pharmacies and laboratories, but also in hospitals where, for example, a large number of identification labels need to be printed, for test tubes, patient wristbands, machines, and more.

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The benefits of an effective labeling system

In such an environment, it is essential to have the right technologies to effectively implement operational and management processes. A major role in this regard belongs to labeling systems. Devices such as printers and labelers, capable of ensuring high performance in terms of quality and quantity, contribute significantly to facilitating data management processes while enabling better customer service.

Being able to have a good printing and labeling system makes it possible to optimize certain processes, such as tube sampling, printing forms and reports, orlabeling ID wristbands.

In addition, the ability to integrate such technologies offers the possibility of streamlining information acquisition and storage procedures while maintaining a high degree of security with respect to sensitive data.

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Solutions for medical laboratories

Specimen management is critical to the smooth operation of a medical laboratory. For this kind of operation, a printer capable of producing labels that are resistant to certain conditions (high temperatures, contact with chemicals) is essential.

This improves bottle and tube sampling and avoids misidentification. The optimal solution in this regard is offered by Brother ‘s QL-800 series label printers.

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Health care solutions

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is a complex sector with specific technological needs, depending on the need to complete the transition from paper media to digital data. This, physiologically, requires the use of technology that can meet precise technical needs: printing labels of various kinds, integrating various devices with each other for smart data and workflow management, and increasing the flexibility of the entire management system. Brother ‘s QL-800 range of labeling printers and Pocket Jets (A4 portable printers) are the solutions that can fully meet the needs of the industry.

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