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Better medicine – with bar codes

‘As nurse Jeremy Copeland chats up patient Wilhelmine Erickson on a recent afternoon at Tacoma’s Allenmore Hospital, he also quickly waves a bar-code reader over her wristband then scans the medication he is giving her.
The action is barely noticeable – seamlessly entwined with Copeland’s questions to Erickson, 85, about how she’s feeling, his flushing of her IV line and handing her a dose of Tylenol.”

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Kelly Karsley, The News Tribune, 7 February 2010

8 February 2010 | Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Barcode, Medication, Medication Errors
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