the Food and Drug Administration stated that bar-code systems can reduce the number of medication errors by 50% and prevent more than 500,000 adverse drug events over the next 20 years.

A prototype system was developed at the Colmery-O'Neil VAMC and later became the model for the award-winning bar-code medication administration (BCMA) system used throughout the Veterans Affairs ...

2. Bar code medication administration: The survey now clarifies single- and mixed-acuity units when asking hospitals about bar code medication administration utilization. It also updates language ...