A syringe assembly (10) includes a syringe barrel (12) having a proximal end and a distal end (16), a needle hub (20) coupled to the distal end of the syringe barrel. A guide member (30) extends from the needle hub (20) for sliding in an axial opening (76, 118, 132) of an adapter (32, 100, 130) connected to the container (36) or vial containing a medication substance, drug, or pharmaceutical. The guide member (30) has a shape and length for mating with the axial opening (76, 118, 132) in the adapter to guide the needle of the syringe in straight line through a septum (42) in the container where the syringe can be filed and aspirated. In one embodiment, the guide member (30) has a plurality of radially extending ribs (52) mating with complementing axial channels or grooves in the axial opening (76, 118, 132) of the adapter (32).

An object matching device includes an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a determining unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image of an object to be matched with a character printed thereon. The extracting unit extracts a partial image of predetermined size including the character as a matching partial image from the image. The determining unit compares the matching partial image with a registration partial image acquired from an object to be registered and registered in advance, and thereby determines an identity of the object to be matched and the object to be registered.

Pharmaceutical containers and methods for producing, registration, identification and authentication of such containers and for determining the operation state of machines for producing pharmaceutical containers are provided.

A medicine identification system and a medicine identification method can favorable identification of a medicine using a camera-equipped mobile terminal. A smartphone including a camera changes a light-emitting region on a display, changes an illuminating direction with respect to a medicine placed on a tray having an indicator used for standardizing size and shape of the medicine, and images the medicine with different illuminating directions with the camera. The medicine identification device standardizes the size and shape of first images acquired by imaging based on the indicators captured in the first images, and extracts a medicine region image from each of the standardized first images. The medicine identification device then generates, based on the extracted medicine region images, a second image having undergone an emphasis process for emphasizing an embossed mark or a printed mark provided on the medicine, and identifies the medicine based on the generated second image.

A tray (100) for accommodating a coiled medical device, such as a catheter assembly (700), includes a first compartment (101), a second compartment (102), and a third compartment (103). The catheter assembly (700) and devices associated with a catheterization procedure, such as syringes (701,702) containing sterile water and lubricating jelly and a specimen container (703) can be disposed within the tray. Printed instructions (1001) can be included with the tray (100). One or more layers of wrap material (2200) can be folded about the tray (100) to enclose the tray (100) and other items, such as an additional layer of wrap material (2701), packaged liquid hand sanitizer (2401), and packaged gloves (2402). When a health care services provider (3101) unfolds the wrap material, the same can be used to create a sterile field beneath a patient (3201).

Use of improved image acquisition for a medical dose preparation system. The medical dose preparation system may include a work station for capturing medical dose preparation images (e.g., to document preparation of a mediation dose). The medical dose preparation image may be captured by a video data stream processor capable of performing an auto cropping technique on a video data stream received from an image device. Accordingly, memory resources may be more efficiently employed while maintaining high quality medical dose preparation images.

The present invention is directed to an ergonomic bottle comprised of a container having sidewalls and a bottom defining a liquid holding space. The sidewalls form an open end with a neck. The sidewalls further comprise indents that facilitate grasping the container by a user. The ergonomic bottle of the present invention further comprises an ergonomic nipple having an alignment mark indicating the orientation of the ergonomic nipple for optimum use. The ergonomic bottle of the present invention has a collar adapted to fasten to the neck and for receiving the ergonomic nipple. The collar has indicia indicating optimum alignment of the ergonomic nipple and indents of the container.

A simple and quick verification of the authenticity of a blister of elements, such as pills in the pharmaceutical industry, is provided. The pills packaged in a blister can be authenticated using mobile imaging devices such as a mobile smartphone. Generally speaking, an image of the pills and their differentiating physical characteristics in the blister is acquired and compared to at least one code which is marked on the blister itself. This code may also be encrypted. A dedicated software application on the mobile smartphone can be used to decrypt the code and compare the code to the image of the pills in the blister, to thereby evaluate authenticity of the blister and its contents.

A code reading device for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes on a plurality of objects arranged next to one another is provided that has a camera unit having at least one camera head for recording an image of the objects, a control and evaluation unit that is configured to localize code zones of the codes in the image and to read the code information of the codes, and a display unit to present the image and to mark the read codes and/or objects having read codes, Here a hand reading unit for reading codes is provided to subsequently read codes not read by means of the camera unit and to transfer the subsequently read code information to the control and evaluation unit.

Use of improved image acquisition for a medical dose preparation system. The medical dose preparation system may include a work station for capturing medical dose preparation images (e.g., to document preparation of a mediation dose). The medical dose preparation image may be captured by a video data stream processor capable of performing an auto cropping technique on a video data stream received from an image device. Accordingly, memory resources may be more efficiently employed while maintaining high quality medical dose preparation images.