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Need the FDA bar code requirements?
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Do you know the latest number? 90,000.
Serious injuries reported to FDA because of hospital drug errors
have increased from about 35,000 in 1998 to about 90,000 in 2005,
according to a report in the journal Archives of Internal
Medicine.
Learn
about the bar coding
applications at US hospitals.
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Should your hospital spend on Bar
Coding or CPOE first? Click here for an excerpt from an
industry expert.
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Bar Codes vs. RFID: A Battle
Just Beginning
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Bar coding
blood specimens and
medications can save lives.
Click here to learn how to
start a bar coding point of care (BPOC) project.
Click here to learn about
other bar coding applications in hospitals.
Does your hospital want a
big patient safety gain on a small budget? Find out what
application will yield significant impact on patient safety
here.
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FIND ANSWERS concerning
Bar Code Labels, drugs, Blood and biologicals from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services-Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Biologics Evaluation and
Research (CBER).
http://www.fda.gov/cber/gdlns/barcode.htm
Could the deaths of the three
(3) premature babies at Methodist Hospital in September 2006 have been
avoided? Learn more how your hospital
could implement a system to avoid the tragedy...
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United States Congress
passed measures to prevent medication errors at Hospitals. The
bill
passed by both the Senate and the House requires the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to develop quality standards, including
medication safety measures, that the Secretary determines will improve
hospital quality.
The FDA estimates that full
implementation of a bar-coded [medication] system will result in 413,000
fewer adverse drug events over the next 20 years, creating an estimated
cost saving of $41.4 billion, not counting money saved on reduced
malpractice litigation.
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- The
Nursing shortage is projected to intensify over the next two decades
with 44 states plus the District of Columbia expected to have RN
shortages by the year 2020. Find out how bar coding in hospitals can help nurses gain
productivity here.
-A
study utilized the College of American
Pathologists' (CAP) database to outline a series of performance measures
targeted at improving patient safety? Read about the study report
here.
-Pharmacist
Organization Urges Hospitals to Use Bar Coding for Medications:
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Click
here for
more.
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The American
Association of Blood Banks (AABB) has reaffirmed its commitment to the new
bar code standard, known as ISBT-128. By May 1, 2006, all blood and blood
components from blood banks and transfusion services will carry a "machine
readable" label in accordance with the FDA final rule, "Bar Code Label
Requirements for Human Drug Products and Biological Products," published
in 2004. According to information from AABB, this patient safety
initiative began in 1989, representing a 16-year pursuit of this final
action that will result in "machine-readable" identification at the
bedside to improve point-of-care testing, medication administration and
other related needs. These actions by the blood banking community both
encourage and confirm the efforts of the HIMSS Bar Coding Sub-Committee to
establish appropriate bar code and/or radio frequency identification (RFID)
standards in all areas of healthcare delivery for improving patient safety
and operational efficiency.
-Will RFID replace bar coding
in the near future? Not according to the experts....click here: http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=182253
-Biometrics together with bar
coding is the [VERY] new trend in
assuring positive patient identification? Read about it here: http://www.secureidnews.com/weblog/2005/07/21/biometrics-enhanced-with-bar-code-technology-increases-patient-safety/
-The
FDA
recently approved SURGICHIP, a site verification system that uses RFID
technology to help streamline surgical site verification and Universal
Protocol compliance...go to the following link for information on this
topic:
http://www.rfidgazette.org/2004/11/fda_approves_rf.html
-Click this link for a good
article on using bar code technology for patient safety by the National
Association for Healthcare Quality.
http://www.nahq.org/journal/ce/article.html?article_id=219
-Hear the latest about
introducing bar codes or wireless radiofrequency identification (RFID)
technology on all patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) medications at the
point-of-care.
http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=55393-patient-controlled-pumps
-The
American Red Cross plans to install a new bar code with a 13-digit label
to compile blood-donor data, blood type, expiration date, collection
facility location and lab results.
http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=157576,00.asp
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