Choosing a Healthcare Barcode Scanner Built for Clinicians - Inside the Code CR2700

Choosing a healthcare barcode scanner is no small feat; after comparing specs, buy-in is needed from IT, procurement, and environmental services. But what about your clinicians’ needs?

Too often, cost and compatibility overshadow usability. When scanners slow workflows, fail on distorted barcodes, or trigger fatigue over 12-hour shifts, frontline clinicians feel it first. So, it’s crucial to ensure that the right scanner also makes care delivery smoother, faster, and safer.

Exploring the Code CR2700: Built for Healthcare

Guided by 20+ years of clinician input, the Code CR2700 Barcode Scanner delivers precise scanning and intuitive data tools. Designed to fit workflows, EHRs, and clinicians’ hands, let’s explore some of the features that consistently position it as a top hospital barcode scanner.

1. Clinician-Driven Design

Hospital-tested elements make CR2700 fit patient care workflows like a glove.

Healthcare-First Tech

Unlike many scanners, CR2700 is purpose-developed for medical barcode scanning.

CodeShield® Plastic

Chemicals can’t penetrate this disinfectant-ready plastic’s densely packed polymers.

  • Withstands routine wipe down with the 20 most common healthcare disinfectants
  • Plastics won’t yellow (looking unsanitary) or degrade (hastening failure from moisture)

Built for Long Shifts

The 4.6 oz (palm model) or 6.2 oz (handled model) scanners are optimized for long shifts.

  • Carefully distributed weight allows the CR2700 to rest on the hand’s stable thenar space
  • Reassuring anti-slip texturing for critical touchpoints
  • Palm and handled models bring 99.9995% accurate scanning to every patient room, pharmacy and lab; these options also make CR2700 great as scanners for medical offices
  • Palm and handled models make excellent pharmacy, laboratory, and medical office scanners thanks to Code’s patented Dual-Field Optics. This two-lens system creates overlapping scan fields to reliably scan any barcode on any hospital label, ranging from laboratory labels on microscope slides to pharmacy labels used in medication dispensing.

2. Precision Performance

Patented tech and smart data tools keep nurses scanning at the speed of life.

User-Friendly, IT-Ready

CR2700 provides high-speed omnidirectional reading of 40+ barcode types for worry-free scanning of laboratory labels, surgical equipment and patient ID wristbands. Want proof of performance?

CR2700 further enhances medication barcode scanning with its health IT-ready JavaScript software platform. Your care teams can program scanners to:

  • “Ignore” specific barcodes, e.g., when scanning packages
  • Parse barcodes instantly, extracting and formatting specified data for EHRs
  • “Force” task sequences, e.g., during sample testing or packaging
  • Multitask, nurses can depress one of the CR2700’s top-mount buttons to scan medication and then press the second to scan and track specimens

3. System-Wide Simplicity

The CR2700 is tailored to workflows, regulatory needs, and EHRs — not vice versa.

Clinician-First, IT-Friendly HealthTech

From L&D to trauma care, workflows and EHR needs vary greatly, and the CR2700 flexes to meet them by interfacing with all major EHRs. In fact, the CortexDecoder® software underpinning CR2700 helped lead the integration of mobile data capture into EHRs.

CR2700 provides hospital-wide utility through compatibility with hospital wristband printers and identification solutions, including barcoded patient ID wristbands and labels. This combo provides patient ID and documentation from admissions to discharge.

To adapt to WoWs, share space with medical lab printers, and equip nurses’ stations, CR2700 offers additional brackets for hands-free scanning, mounting, and quad-bay battery chargers.

Lastly, to build on the data transmission integrity of its Bluetooth® 5 low-energy tech, CR2700 offers an optional FIPS 140-3-certified model that:

  • Incorporates additional security and interoperability through data encryption
  • Employs U.S. government-tested cryptography for data transmission — ideal for federally run hospitals and clinics

One Scanner, Endless Support

Whether equipping a maternity wing or in-hospital pharmacy, the CR2700 and PDC’s patient ID ecosystem fit your clinicians’ workflows while supporting data integrity needs.

Contact PDC to achieve your clinician-enablement goals with our portfolio of hospital-ready scanning and ID solutions and our U.S.-based tech support group