Cardinal Health Unveils New BarCode360 Technology Solution to Optimize Medication Safety

At this week's 46th Annual Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Cardinal Health launched BarCode360™, a solution that supports hospitals' medication safety initiatives by making it easier, more timely and cost efficient to order medications and ensure more unit-dose medications can be scanned at the patient’s bedside.

BarCode360 includes a unique portal that seamlessly integrates the ordering process for all scan-ready, barcoded medications.  Using product identifiers, BarCode360 synchronizes the hospital's product master as nurses scan medications and administer them to patients, allowing dispensing machines to be appropriately stocked, based on real-time medication information. BarCode360's data synchronization also helps hospitals improve revenue capture by tracking and billing each medication specifically to the patient to whom it was administered. And because it integrates with each hospital's current technology platforms, BarCode360 requires no capital expenditure.

ASHP has set a goal for 75 percent of U.S. hospitals to fully implement barcode medication administration (BCMA) by 2014.

For more on this story, see the release from Cardinal: 
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