Implementation Guide to Bar Coding and Auto-ID in Healthcare: Improving Quality and Patient Safety

This book explores how bar coding technologies are used in healthcare to provide safe patient care and reduce preventable deaths from medical and medication errors. This book illustrates how bar code applications are used in healthcare for point-of-care, medication administration, supply chain and document management and how such technologies impact an organization's bottom line.

The book explores the developments in bar coding that have occurred since HIMSS published its first guide, Imple...