Barcode Asset TrackingThe liabilities of a leading medical lab tracking their specimen slides had come unbearable. These lab slides would move from lab to lab, and often to other lab facilities for further analysis.

The legacy software that logged the analysis of the specimen would generate a small 2D barcode for the slide, but would not track its movement. Often times these critical slides would go missing, and personnel would spend valuable time trying to locate the slides. This was costing the department money and resource time.

The lab technicians tried to use spreadsheets as a log to track who had a specific slide, but reading the 2D barcode and updating the spreadsheet which was only located in the storage facility became unrealistic. What the lab needed was an easy way to log the movement of each slide, maintain a history of all circulation and provide management with a comprehensive means of reporting. Lab personnel also needed to be able to query the location of slides if they were not found in the permanent storage unit.

The OPUS Asset Tracker was selected due to its ease of configuration and its extensive tracking functionality. An interface from the legacy lab system populates OPUS automatically with all the required metadata needed by the users. A 'self-check' OPUS kiosk was setup for users to easily pass the barcode on the slide over a reader along with their ID badge and perform an instant 'check out'.

Using the OPUS Transfer Agent, slides can be moved from one workstation to another and the 'movement' logged into OPUS. The process runs completely in the background of their desktop as user's need only to wave the slide barcode past a stationary barcode reader and the rest is done seamlessly.

Lab technicians can now easily locate the current location of the slide by performing a simple query in OPUS. The lab is now compliant and slides are no longer lost. Possible liability instantly decreased.

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