you have an IRQ or COM port conflict with your hardware and your PC. This means that the IRQ or the COM port the barcoding scanner device has been assigned to is also being used by something else on your computer. What you're gIn this installment of medical billing, we're going to examine some common problems that you may run into with one of the more common add-ons to a medical billing package, barcoding. We'll not only examine the problems but give possible causes and solutions to them. Of course each case may be different.

One of the most common problems you will run into with barcoding when you're trying to scan or enter a new barcode is that the barcode doesn't take. In the case of trying to enter the barcode, the keys don't seem to be typing anything. In the case of trying to scan a barcode into the system, the scanner doesn't seem to be picking anything up. What should happen is that as you scan the barcode, the barcode itself should appear in the barcode text box and the system should beep. Instead, nothing happens.

In both cases, especially if both are happening together, the most common problem is that you have an IRQ or COM port conflict with your hardware and your PC. This means that the IRQ or the COM port the barcoding scanner device has been assigned to is also being used by something else on your computer. What you're go

ossible causes and solutions to them. Of course each case may be different.

One of the most common problems you will run into with barcoding when you're trying to scan or enter a new barcode is that the barcode doesn't take. In the case of trying to enter the barcode, the keys don't seem to be typing anything. In the case of trying to scan a barcode into the system, the scanner doesn't seem to be picking anything up. What should happen is that as you scan the barcode, the barcode itself should appear in the barcode text box and the system should beep. Instead, nothing happens.

In both cases, especially if both are happening together, the most common problem is that you have an IRQ or COM port conflict with your hardware and your PC. This means that the IRQ or the COM port the barcoding scanner device has been assigned to is also being used by something else on your computer. What you're g

. In the case of trying to enter the barcode, the keys don't seem to be typing anything. In the case of trying to scan a barcode into the system, the scanner doesn't seem to be picking anything up. What should happen is that as you scan the barcode, the barcode itself should appear in the barcode text box and the system should beep. Instead, nothing happens.

In both cases, especially if both are happening together, the most common problem is that you have an IRQ or COM port conflict with your hardware and your PC. This means that the IRQ or the COM port the barcoding scanner device has been assigned to is also being used by something else on your computer. What you're g

you scan the barcode, the barcode itself should appear in the barcode text box and the system should beep. Instead, nothing happens.

In both cases, especially if both are happening together, the most common problem is that you have an IRQ or COM port conflict with your hardware and your PC. This means that the IRQ or the COM port the barcoding scanner device has been assigned to is also being used by something else on your computer. What you're g

you have an IRQ or COM port conflict with your hardware and your PC. This means that the IRQ or the COM port the barcoding scanner device has been assigned to is also being used by something else on your computer. What you're going to have to do in order to correct this problem is go into your system configuration, view every device that is connected to it, such as modems, printers, etc. and jot down the IRQ and COM port for each of these devices. When you find the conflicting device you're either going to have to move it to another port, or if there is no place to put it, you'll have to uninstall it or move the scanner to another computer. Those are your only options.

If there are no conflicts, then it is quite possible that the scanner is simply not functioning and not only that, it's locking up the keyboard. To test this, just unplug the scanner and try to type any barcode entry into the software. It should work fine.

Another common problem with barcoding is that when you print out the barcode labels themselves, they either print off center or get cut off or simply just don't print right. This is usually a simp