QR codes in neurosurgery
Pieter Kubben · Surgical Neurology International · 2011
Everyone of you will be familiar with the linear bar codes that are used in shops, or maybe for patient identification in your hospital. Dedicated bar code scanners are used to link the bar code to a specific type of information, like a product price in a shop or a patient identity in a hospital. Using modern information technology, the use of bar codes can be much more than just these examples. Smartphones with integrated cameras can be used to recognize bar codes and link them to products or new information sources (website, multimedia, and address). This development leads to a need for more advanced bar codes that would offer: easy and fast recognition, and a wider range of individual bar codes to reliably identify all information sources.