"SATO's Healthcare Solutions enable patients to undergo treatment in an error-free and cost-optimized manner."

Every year many people fall victim to medical blunders. One of the biggest causes of medical errors is the failure of proper patient identification verification.

SATO HEALTHCARE ID SOLUTIONS™ system is the perfect marriage between technology and procedures to help hospitals and healthcare providers improve medical safety, and productive.

It comprises SATO's compact CT Series barcode printers computer based database system, the proprietary 2D barcodes and handheld scanners. Patients' information can be stored in the database and retrieved in an instant with the scan of his wristband.

Medical staff can now verify patients with their treatment easily using a handheld scanner. An alert will be issued when a wrong drug label is scanned. This improves overall medication accuracy and risks of misidentification and litigation will be greatly reduced.

SATO also offers 3 types of Wristbands: the thermal transfer hard type, thermal transfer soft type, and direct thermal type. SATO's quality wristbands are perfect for everyday wear; they are smudge-free and waterproof.

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