In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing a final rule requiring bar codes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products. The measure will help protect patients from ...

Internal data collection suggested that approximately 60% of medications were without a bar code. [2] Therefore, we projected that 3 million medication doses would require repackaging or the addition ...

We've known the dismal statistics for a while now. Each year as many as 98,000 Americans die as a result of human errors made in hospitals. MORE THAN 7,000 of them--a higher number than those lost to ...