Code Reader Improves Traceability

Absolute Vision, a specialist in two-dimensional (2D) code reading, today launches a new, upgraded version of its solution to fulfill tracking requirements in the healthcare market.

Absolute Vision, a specialist in two-dimensional (2D) code reading, today launches a new, upgraded version of its solution to fulfill tracking requirements in the healthcare market.

The Medusa Medical Instrument Reader (MIR) is a compact, neatly designed unit with a height of just 125 mm, in a sealed alloy IP64 housing.

The reader has been designed especially to read directly applied marks from laser, ink-jet and electro-chemical etching, as well as printed labels.

It uses state-of-the-art lighting and imaging to deliver high quality images.

Reading can be done from any flat or cylindrical surface, from rough to highly polished, including metal, plastic and paper surfaces.

Use of a pure white LED light source ensures a perfect read whatever the colour of the background.

The upgraded MIR reader uses the latest version of Absolute Vision's MedusaLite graphical user interface and includes near real-time video imaging.

It is based on Absolute Vision's newly enhanced Medusa code-reading software that will support the Data Matrix, ISO 16022, square and rectangular formats in ECC200, white on black, and black on white.

Readable cell size is from 0.12 mm.

Richard Laight, business development manager for Absolute Vision, said: "We designed the Medusa Medical Instrument Reader for the healthcare market to improve the tracking of individual medical instruments in and out of the theatre.

If, for example, a patient undergoes an operation but later contracts a disease, records could be checked to find out which particular instruments were involved in the original operation and whether they have passed correctly through the sterilization process.

The Medusa software supports an extensive list of different methods of data integration.

This ensures that the decoded data can be ported easily into any system without the need for middleware or for using up valuable IT department resources.

The MIR can automatically transfer data into any Windows application as required.

Full technical specifications are available from Absolute Vision.

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