To help prevent such errors, technology has been developed to verify medications by incorporating bar-code verification technology within an electronic medication-administration system (bar-code ...

A female Pharmacist scanning pill box. Barcode technology can reduce medication errors by ensuring that the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time, in the right dose ...

One solution showing immense promise in enhancing medication management and automated workflows is the integration of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology with existing Barcode ...

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 ...

ECRI, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to patient safety, identified workarounds with barcode medication administration systems as one of its two most urgent safety concerns for 2024.

The Leapfrog Group added a new measure to assign hospitals patient safety grades that assesses how well they prevent and identify medication errors. The bar code medication administration measure ...

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 ...

Kantaros said improving medication safety was the system's largest obstacle. "We had multiple people who are [specializing in work involving] barcode scanning to figure out all of the places where ...

ASHP has set a goal for 75% of U.S. hospitals to fully implement barcode medication administration (BCMA) by 2014[1], because this process can prevent medication errors by alerting nurses if they ...

A recent study found that nurses ran into a variety of setbacks using a bar-code-based system for tracking the delivery of patients' medication. The Veterans Health Administration's proprietary ...