The process required the anesthesiologist to scan every drug ampoule and syringe label for accuracy verification during drug dispensing, premixing, administration and documentation. Two weeks after ...

Two government advisory boards, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), discussed multiple ways to contain healthcare costs ...

Most adverse drug events are caused by one or more system breakdowns within the medication-use process. [1] At our institution, we have implemented bar-code scanning during the pharmacy distribution ...

Purdue University chemists have developed a way to "bar code" individual chemical compounds, making it quick, easy and economical to identify the most biologically active ones among thousands of ...

Children’s Hospital in Denver will be implementing a bar-code system this fall to help improve medication safety among its patients, according to a Denver Post news report. The bar-code system allows ...