The hospitals of Community Healthcare System are among the first in the country to use bar-coding technology providing more efficient results for physicians and reducing the opportunity for identification errors of surgical specimens processed in the laboratory.
The same type of technology used to track packages around the globe is now being used to safeguard specimens [...]

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The national unemployment rate surprised observers by dipping 0.2 percentage points to 10% in November.
The New Gary Development Group says it finally obtained new financing to restart work on the empty 14-story Sheraton Hotel in Gary, which it now plans to turn into a senior citizen’s center.
The threat of Asian carp reaching the Great Lakes [...]

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