Healthcare Solutions

Cognitive’s healthcare printing applications address patient safety, accuracy, and productivity every day at the admission’s desk for patient care, to pharmacy and lab work, to inventory and asset management. Our thermal printers are used in hospitals and medical facilities around the world to print barcode labels for wristbands, specimen labels, prescriptions, and business forms.

Our customers choose Cognitive desktop and portable barcode printers and media solutions because our products are: 

Durable:
Cognitive’s barcode label printers stand up to challenging hospital, medical facility, and laboratory environments because of their rugged structural design. 

• C Series label printers deliver exceptional value as high-performance durable printers with small footprints, a full internal connectivity suite, large roll capacity, and easy to use LCD menu, all at an affordable price.
  
  
• Advantage LXandAdvantage DLX label printers run continuously in many environments, like laboratories and nurse stations. These products have nearly indestructible cases and proven track records of printing top quality labels in the most demanding high volume applications.
   
• C/Rx printers are the ideal solution for retail pharmacies.   The thermal label design and metal construction allows for continuous printing and virtually no downtime.  C/Rx thermal printers offer many benefits over laser printing for prescription labels.
  
  
• Cognitive offers a wide variety of media solutions to meet healthcare and Pharmaceutical requirements. 
  Our thermal labels and wristbands are tamper-proof, cost-efficient, and resistant to moderate abrasion. Visit our Supplies/Parts for a list of media supplies compatible with our printers.

Mobile:

• Cognitive’s lightweight and easy-to-use Code Ranger portable printers are ideal for mobile identification recording and specimen labeling at the point of care.
  
  
• Our C Series and Advantage LX , and Advantage DLX printers are a third of the size of a mid-range printer and can easily fit in a nurses’ station or on a medical cart. Cognitive’s rechargeable power pack makes on-demand printing and mobile cart applications effortless.
  

Flexible:

• Cognitive’s C Series printers have the large roll capacity required for efficient wristband barcode label printing.

• Cognitive C/Rx thermal script printer is all about improved workflow, barcode automation and low cost of ownership versus traditional laser printing. Its PCL emulation allows for easy integration with your workflow and legacy pharmacy system

• Cognitive offers three desktop printing solutions for wristband printing and patient identification.

• Our printers’ multiple communications options address all connectivity requirements – parallel/serial, USB, or Ethernet.

• Cognitive’s barcode labels can be used in patient, sterile, clean room, and laboratory environments.

• With a wide path media index sensor, adjustable bar sensor, Cognitive's C Series printers can handle small label formats for unit-dose barcode labeling using Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) as approved by the FDA.

• Cognitive thermal printers accommodate a wide variety of media including wristbands, blood bank labels, file labels, patient chart labels, and other unique label sizes, materials, and shapes.

How can Cognitive printing and media solutions improve your Healthcare environment?

Ensure Safety and Provide Accuracy:

• Eliminate human error and ensuring patient treatment is accurate in terms of dosage, delivery time, and identification
• Ensure accuracy in specimen management with labeling solutions at the point of service
• Provide efficient record, chart, file, and test result tracking
• Make sure patient and staff identification is tamperproof
• Ensure that patient information is encoded in order to satisfy HIPAA requirements

Reduce Costs:

• Accurately tracking of medical supplies, inventory, medical devices, and equipment, resulting in reductions of administration errors that are both costly and troublesome to hospitals
• Minimizine lost charges through inventory scanning at point of use
• Generate quick on-demand labels that reduce admission and nurses' time

Ease of Use:

• Easy to use printers enable your medical providers to concentrate on the patient.

Fit the Needs of the Healthcare Industry:

• Medical and dental practices (individual and group)
• Veterinary care facilities
• Clinics
• Emergency medical centers
• Hospitals
• Long-term care and assisted living facilities
• Laboratories
• University research departments
• Pharmaceutical and device manufacturers

Common Healthcare Applications

• Blood transfusions
• Specimen collection and tracking
• Radiology film identification and tracking
• Patient file management
• Admissions
• Surgical procedures
• Medical equipment inventory tracking
• Unit does labeling

Common Retail Pharmacy Applications

• Receiving
• Validation & Verification
• Fulfillment
• Storing & Delivery
• Prescription Labeling
• Patient Education Forms/ Compliant Prescription Monographs