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Barcodes For Healthcare

One of the leading industries in healthcare and ensuring better living conditions for all people is the healthcare industry. While having hospitals, nursing homes, medical institutions and others for the benefit of the people, however, one hears treatment or medication that is misdiagnosed due to misdiagnosis or misspelling or typing. But since the barcode system of unreachable products and services was created, the possibility of mistakes in the industrial and retail sectors is almost eliminated. The healthcare industry has used a barcode system to identify patients who are admitted for treatment to eliminate possible misdiagnosis that can lead to serious complications.

Manual errors such as errors in prescribing drugs, wrong packaging and labeling of drugs or distribution and administration of drugs are possible. However, the barcode recognition system solved all of these problems successfully. This has led to an increase in the safety of all patients. The standard practice in most healthcare organizations today is to tie a barcode identification band to a patient's wrist which is then scanned to collect the necessary information about the patient. Generally a 2D barrel or barcode is used for this process. Because the same barcode is attached to the patient and the medicine given, the process of medicine is much easier. Since scanning occurs before the medication is given, the right patient receives the right medication.

Specific hardware and software tools are used when using barcodes for healthcare purposes. Barcode prints that produce barcodes that are attached to medicines and wrists, computer barcode scanners, communications networks that connect scanners to central processing computers, software applications that analyze barcode information related to various departments in hospitals, such as pharmaceutical departments, admissions departments, discharge departments and so on. This is known as bar drug administration or BCMA. Another feature is a small computer located near a patient that requires an interface for a barcode scanner to connect to it and the computer is connected to the main hospital control system.

One of the first steps in adopting barcode technology for healthcare is BCMA and the next step is to provide the medical needs that must be included and provided. Radio frequency identification tag is another future solution that has the advantages of barcode also.

Barcodes bring accuracy and efficiency in medicine. Lab specimens, patient nutrition requirements, bills and other information can be added for each barcode. All told and done, the barcode has helped to reduce patient identification errors and as the technology improves, some of the weaknesses will also be eliminated.



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