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\"\"<\/a>Despite being around for 20+ years, and having many potential benefits, QR codes are only now beginning to pop up in the medical industry.\u00a0 The main uses of such a technology would be improved marketing abilities, information distribution and more importantly superior medical treatment and efficiency.\u00a0 Below are a few ways a medical facility might use this technology to improve their business.<\/p>\n

The most important potential use of this technology and a way to help reduce medical errors, and provide information to a medical provider quickly is to promote an \u201cemergency card\u201d that everyone should carry on them at all times.\u00a0 On this card there would be a QR code which if scanned would take you to important information about the individual.\u00a0 For example it might have a list of all known allergies the patient suffers from, what blood type they are, or any other information that a medical provider might need to know, and particularly those providers like EMT\u2019s or ER doctors who need the information quickly.\u00a0 Having this information readily available in an emergency might mean the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n

A QR codes can also be used to provide various types of information to customers.\u00a0 For example a medical facility might hand out a refrigerator magnet containing a QR code to their customers.\u00a0 \u00a0If it was a hospital the QR code upon scanning might provide the ER wait time. \u00a0If it is was a family doctor, dentist or a similar practice the QR code upon scanning might take the customer to a landing page where they can schedule an appointment.\u00a0 Or the QR code might provide some information for those people coming off some surgery or procedure, so that if they have questions they can simply scan the code on their refrigerator and have most of their questions answered.\u00a0 There are seemingly endless ways you might use this technology to provide information and services to customers.<\/p>\n

Lastly, QR codes can be used to market your medical facility, yourself, or other medical providers.\u00a0 For example a dentist might provide potential customers or a local family doctor (who might send referrals) with a brochure containing a QR code, or place the code on an ad in a magazine.\u00a0 Upon scanning this QR code it might take you to a video of the dentist explaining his background and expertise, or a video of customers talking about their experience.\u00a0 It might also take you to a video touring the medical facility, or showing off some special equipment.\u00a0 Putting this sort of marketing material at the finger tips of potential customers should go a long way to making your expertise known and keeping your medical practice growing.<\/p>\n

These are just a handful of ways the medical industry might benefit from using QR codes, but it is always important to point out that QR codes best practices<\/a> must be followed, and having the best QR code connected mobile website platform<\/a> is a must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite being around for 20+ years, and having many potential benefits, QR codes are only now beginning to pop up in the medical industry.\u00a0 The main uses of such a technology would be improved marketing abilities, information distribution and more importantly superior medical treatment and efficiency.\u00a0 Below are a few ways a medical facility might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qr"],"yoast_head":"\nUsing QR Codes in the Medical Industry | Qfuse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/qfuse.com\/blog\/using-qr-codes-in-the-medical-industry\/\" \/>\n<script 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