DataRay Products Update

The following new DataRay solutions provide significant patient safety advances for Admitting/Nursing, and Pharmacy departments:

· TALL - MAN LETTERING : As of Aug 22nd, 2005 DataRay is officially announced the release of our Tall-Man Lettering, "Plug and Play" medication orders and prescription printing solution, in accordance with the FDA's efforts to minimize medication errors associated with look alike drug names.

· RADIO FREQUENCY PATIENT IDENTIFICATION (RFID): DataRay now provides Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) encoding, RFID reading, and training concerning the new importance of undisturbed RF patient identification and how the proliferation of Medication Administration Checking software has increased the need for this technology.

DataRay also provides barcode healthcare implementations, with the use of custom label and wristband printers designed specifically to interface to the SIEMENS Clinical and SIEMENS Pharmacy systems.

Some of the topics discussed below are:

· Embosser replacement and the barcode integration process

· Use of thermal printers for reliable pharmacy label printing

· Bar-coded Patient Identification Armbands

· Barcode uses and implementations for patient safety

· 2D bar-coding for printing patient bedside specimen labels and for downtime solutions

· Preparation for Medication Administration Checking system

· RFID Patient Identification

· DataRay Tall-Man Lettering Pharmacy solution for easy identification of look-alike drugs.

DATARAY BAR-CODED WRISTBANDS AND LABELS AS A "PLUG & PLAY" SOLUTION

DataRay equipment gives hospitals the ability to generate reliable bar-coded wristbands and patient record labels as a "plug and play" solution, without requiring additional system servers or the complicated integration of extra software to your Hospital Information System. It also gives you the ability to change label formats simply by changing the label report in your system, without having to learn complicated label printer commands or programming.

DataRay thermal label and wristband printers are specifically designed to attach and print barcodes for SIEMENS Invision, SIEMENS Pharmacy, Unity, MS4, and many other hospital systems, as an immediate and efficient solution; offering the most cost effective means to migrate off unsafe, undependable embosser equipment, to providing reliable, accurate labels and wristbands with exceptional readability.

INCREASING PATIENT SAFETY THROUGH ACCURATE PATIENT IDENTIFICATION

JCAHO : With Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) safety requirements today, taking the proper steps to ensure and increase patient safety is a MUST for every hospital and healthcare facility.

HIPAA : Implementing a bar coding system provides solutions to a wide variety of obstacles many hospitals and other healthcare facilities often face. A patient's information can be put in the form of a mere ID number that when scanned, displays information assigned to that specific number. Utilizing barcodes, provides a means of accessing a patients medical records and information easily and instantaneously, but at the same time, gives the patient the privacy they desire. Bar-coding can also be used to satisfy some Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy requirements.

Downtime Solutions : The DataRay 2D barcode, or Label Duplicator Code (LDC) allows healthcare professionals to print duplicate labels containing patient's necessary information even if the Hospital Information System shuts down. By simply scanning the 2D barcode, DataRay printers can generate a label without interface to the network or Hospital Information System. This down-time solution allows labels to be printed at the patient's bedside, for immediate labeling of blood or other samples collected, leaving no room for confusion during transport to the lab, or uncertainty of which sample belongs to which patient, narrowing the gap for human error and increasing protection of the patient.

Automated Medication Administration Systems : One of the most effective ways to improve patient safety, is by using bar-coded wristbands combined with an automated medication administration system, such as the SIEMENS Medication Administration Check (MAC). Using a barcode/scanner system, hospitals can drastically reduce and prevent unnecessary medication administration errors, while increasing patient/employee satisfaction and peace of mind. By incorporating DataRay's bar-coded labels and wristbands with an automated medication administration system, the "Five Rights" can be checked automatically and immediately- right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right method of administration. With this method of patient and medication verification, healthcare professionals can be sure that the patient will be identified correctly with accurate information given every time.

RFID : Due to the importance placed on patient safety, and the automated medication administration system, yet another solution to improving patient identification has been introduced. Through the use of radio frequencies to identify patients, RFID wristbands provide hospitals with wireless data transmission that much like barcodes, save time and money, but do not require scanning a bar code on the patient's chart or wristband. By using the RFID wristbands, patient information can be read through and around the human body, clothing, bed coverings and other non-metallic materials. This added convenience becomes substantially important with the introduction of the need for frequent verification of the patient's identification, as required by an automated medication administration system, enabling all necessary information to be collected without ever waking or disturbing the patient.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF DATARAY'S "PLUG AND PLAY" PHARMACY SOLUTION WITH TML

Tall Man Lettering : In addition to providing efficiency, accuracy, and reliability, DataRay would like to announce the introduction of its new product, "Tall Man Lettering" (TML). Tall Man Lettering is a drug identification tool used in pharmacy labeling that is designed to reduce medication errors. Tall Man Lettering helps healthcare professionals detect certain drugs that could possibly be confused with other drugs, due to similar names and appearances. By altering the way labels appear, medication mix-up's are more likely to be prevented.

Take the following for example:

Without TML: EPINEPHRINE vs. EPHEDRINE

With TML: EPINEPHrine vs. ePHEDrine

By implementing TML, the two drugs look drastically different. Using TML as a safety precaution could possibly save pharmacies from filling the prescription incorrectly, and avoid delivering the patient the wrong, possibly harmful drug. The DataRay solution provides the customer with a modifiable list of TML words, including the drug names the FDA's Office of Generic Drugs has established as prone to look-a-like drug name medication errors, once again without the need for integrating additional software or servers into the Hospital Information System. For additional examples of TML, visit the following websites:

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/MedErrors/nameDiff.htm

http://www.ismp.org/MSAarticles/drugnames.html

Choosing a printer specifically designed to print these labels and wristbands eliminates numerous problems such a label jams, oozing glue, and frequent calls to the IT department. DataRay's specially configured printers are small, quiet, and fast, allowing the user to conveniently print labels on demand "as needed" doing away with consumables waste. Having few moving parts, DataRay printers are reliable and long-lasting. With hospital's tight budgets DataRay printers are an economical patient admitting and pharmacy solution.

For more information call DataRay at 800-477-5317, email to Sales@DataRayUSA.com

East Jefferson General Hospital – Metairie, LA, “Printers are doing great. I have plenty of appreciation for DataRay because your team has helped me in the past when I was in a crunch and needed service. Your company definitely understands healthcare's "sense of urgency" when support is needed.”