Medi-Dose and EPS publish white paper on bar coding in healthcare settings

IVYLAND, Pa. — It’s essential for healthcare professionals to follow the five tenets of medication dispensing and administration: the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route and the right time. Within every facility, systems are instituted to ensure these five tenets are observed. Bar codes can play an important role in medication dispensing, helping healthcare professionals ensure they are administering drugs to the right patients correctly. But many people don’t know how bar codes work, or which bar code options are best for their systems.

To help healthcare professionals better understand bar coding, Medi-Dose and EPS have released a white paper called, “Bar Codes and Bar Code Scanners for Unit Dose Medication in a Healthcare Setting.” It explains how bar codes work, the types of bar codes and scanner that are available and how to best termine the best equipment and bar code options for unit dose medications.

Click here to see the white paper.

For more than 45 years, Medi-Dose and EPS have been working with pharmacists and nurses to develop cost-effective solutions that promote medication safety and error prevention.