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Article: Medication bar codes can work but problems ...
Healthcare Risk Management;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Medication bar codes can work but problems persist Researchers ... that a new computer system that uses bar codes to safeguard patients medications can ... implementation. At issue is whether bar codes could enable health care professionals ...

Article: MEDICATION BAR CODES EXPECTED.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 14, 2003 ;     516 words ...Byline: New York Times The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it would require bar codes on all medications so hospitals could use scanners to make sure patients get the correct dose of the right drug. The new requirement ...

Article: Bar codes may help avoid the most common errors.
Healthcare Risk Management;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... officer, says it is clear that bar codes can improve patient safety. He ... the FDA has proposed. Requiring bar codes that include the NDC is an important ... FDA at a hearing recently that medication bar codes are long overdue. Bar coding technology ...

Article: Hospitals use bar codes to improve patient safety
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... improve patient safety. Scannable bar codes often are found on medications ... either already bar coded or have bar codes added as soon as they come in ... patient's room. Both patient and medication bar codes are scanned to make sure it ...

Article: Omnicell Applauds FDA Rule on Bar Codes.
PR Newswire;  February 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... PharmacyCentral, which scans drug bar codes during the receiving, storage ... dispensing processes and also generates bar codes for items not having a bar code ... code checking of the patient and medication bar codes at the patient bedside to help ...

Article: Drug Bar Codes Check Into Hospitals; Health Care: ...
San Diego Business Journal;  December 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... to require supermarket-style bar codes on all prescription drugs to reduce ... Health Secretary Bobby Jindal said bar codes should be required on all hospital ... Inc., which has developed a medication bar-code software program, said ...

Article: Hospitals Embrace New PakPlus-Rx(TM) Medication Bar ...
PR Newswire;  December 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... PakPlus-Rx, McKessonHBOC Automated Healthcare's new medication bar code packaging service. Fifteen healthcare facilities have ... the industry and we continue to lead the push to include bar codes throughout the medication-use process," says McDonald ...