Bar-Code Medication Administration Case Study

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In 1994 a nurse from the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Topeka, Kansas was inspire by the bar code that a rental car company used to track vehicles and concluded that similarly applied bar-code scanning technology could enhance patient safety by reducing medication errors without replacing, a nurse's clinical judgment. A prototype system was developed at the Colmery-O'Neil VAMC and later became the model bar-code medication administration (BCMA) system used throughout the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system.
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