NEWARK, CA — (Marketwire) — 03/05/12 — Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), an innovative provider of mobile productivity solutions, today announced a partnership with Protomed, a developer of pharmaceutical packaging and drug management systems. The collaboration combines the barcode scanner with Protomed-s cloud-based medication administration application for the Apple iPad, known as . The combined solution enables long-term care facilities to increase medication compliance, prevent drug waste, and better conform to medication administration regulations.
The CHS 7Xi is a high-performance 2D barcode scanner certified by Apple for the iPad and other iOS devices. Using the CHS 7Xi and iPad at the point of care, nurses or other care providers can quickly verify patients- medicines, which have been packaged with Protomed-s Biodose dosage monitoring system. Drug administration is automatically recorded with a timestamp for government audits. Clinical staff can also use the solution to check in drug inventory received from the pharmacy, saving significant amounts of time. Protomed is actively promoting the solution to its Biodose customers, which include hundreds of nursing homes in Europe and North America, serving more than 35,000 patients each year.
“We view our partnership with Socket Mobile as a long-term relationship which will enable us to continue our development of life-saving innovations in healthcare,” said Norman Niven, Managing Director of Protomed. “We believe this initial offering has great potential, and there are many more products for the healthcare market that Protomed and Socket Mobile can develop together.”
“Our partnership with Protomed is a great example of Socket Mobile-s ongoing initiative with the Apple iOS developer community. The CHS 7Xi and associated SDK made it easy for ProtoMed to deliver a powerful and effective barcode scanning driven solution for healthcare,” said Mike Gifford, executive vice president of Socket Mobile. “As more Apple developers come to appreciate the portability, reliability and ease of use of our barcode scanners, we expect to see the CHS integrated into a wide variety of innovative enterprise applications.”
For more information about the SocketScan 10 Software Development Kit (SDK) for the CHS 7Xi, please .
With 20 years of experience in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture market, Socket makes mobile computing and productivity work. The company offers a family of handheld computers and an extensive portfolio of AIDC peripherals designed specifically for business mobility deployments and to enable productivity increases and drive operational efficiencies in healthcare, hospitality and other vertical markets. The company also offers OEM solutions for the mobile device market. Socket is headquartered in Newark, Calif. and can be reached at +1-510-933-3000 or . Follow Socket Mobile on Twitter and subscribe to , the company-s official blog.
Protomed is a developer of pharmaceutical packaging and drug management systems based in Cheshire, U.K. For more information, please visit: .
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