Post #3174092
2025-10-10 08:30 UTC
I have. And I have wondered all those things. And thought about the consequences if they go wrong. It’s a scary moment, easy to feel powerless. And the stakes feel high.
But then the nurse comes to take observations, and scans the wrist band. Beep! Medications are scanned before they’re put in that tiny paper cup. Beep! The phlebotomist takes blood, and attaches barcodes to the vial. (That will beep in the lab.)
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@hadleybeeman@w3c.social 2025-10-10 08:31
And I know everything is going to be okay. The people and things in the real world are connected to the electronic records by those barcodes. It gives me a massive sense of relief. So that’s my new job. I’m the system architect for the standards around barcodes, which means that everything from how they get encoded (how a number becomes those zebra stripes or QR code etc) through to what info goes in them so it can go beep at the bedside or cash register. 3/