Synergy
is
a
lot
like putting butter and salt on your
potatoes. Even though
the
individual items are
OK,
they
taste a lot better when they are combined. Some ideas are
are like that to. Imagine a businesswithout a telephone,
a
tape recorder without cassette (reel-to-reel?), or a
TV
without a VCR.. Unthinkable! Sometimes the simplest
combinations create the most powerful effects.
The
OpticMicTMhand microphone/bar code reader
represents the marriage of
two
good ideas.
It
brings
together a bar code reader for scanning bar code numbers
and a hand microphone for dictation. Sound logical! It
sure
is
if your doing modern dictation. Thekinds of
dictation were you have to enter long strings of numbers
to
identify patients, departments and work types. When you
enter numbers, you have four options: ignore them
entirely,have someone else do it, use a keypad, or use a bar
code reader. The
first
generally leads to the second, the
third
is
tedious, and the fourth-well-it’s the easiest, but
it
means you have another instrument to handle. The
OpticMicTMhand microphone/bar code reader places
dictation and scanning in one place-the palm
of
your
hand. Oneinstrument for both jobs.
SOME FUNDAMENTALS
TheOpticMicTMbar code reader can read and decode
3-of-9 bar codes-more commonly called “Code39.”
It
can read bar codes from either a left-to-right
or
right-to-left scan.
It
also produces a confirmation beep
after a successful scan. (If desired,
it
can produce an error
tone for unsuccessful scans. Consult a Dictaphone
representative for information about enabling or disabling
these tones.)
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