To incentivize nurses to fully integrate bar-code scanning into their routine workflow, scanning rates were incorporated into their performance evaluations, with awards given to nurses and hospital ...

Bar code scanning has become the de facto system used in retail, as well as many other industries, due to its accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness. Moreover, it is an approach that provides ...

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 ...

Despite the ongoing digital transformation of the industry, one older technology that remains an essential part of many modern businesses is bar code scanning, as it provides accurate and speedy ...

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 ...

All anesthesiologists were surveyed about their satisfaction with the system and errors that had been intercepted by the system during the five-month window. Twenty-one of the 41 survey respondents ...

The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...