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Bar code medication administration (BCMA) is a barcode system designed by Glenna Sue Kinnick to prevent medication errors in healthcare settings and to improve the quality and safety of medication administration. The overall goals of BCMA are to improve accuracy, prevent errors, and generate online records of medication administration.
Medication management is a difficult task, where it focuses on the "five rights": right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route of administration. [7] Barcode medication verification at bedside allows for nurses to automatically document the administration of drugs by means of barcode scanning.
A positive patient identification at the point of care can be ensured through bar-code identifiers and radiofrequency identifiers. Bar-code Identification - Patient data is encoded within a bar-code on the patient's identification bracelet. Device identifying data is encoded within a bar-code attached to the device.
ADCs are like automated teller machines whose specific technologies such as barcode scanning and clinical decision support can improve medication safety. Some have metal locking drawers for added security and some have automated single-dose dispensing to prevent the need for a blind count each time a controlled substance is accessed. [ 4 ]
These problems then made it very difficult to obtain buy-in from the physicians, which ultimately caused several hundred physicians employed at Cedars to refuse to use the system after only 3 months. [7] [8] The failure was not only due to technology design and inefficiencies, but also to poor training and implementation.
Bar Code Medication Administration, a barcode system designed to prevent medication errors in healthcare settings; B-cell maturation antigen, a protein that in humans is encoded by the TNFRSF17 gene; Doctors of BC formerly British Columbia Medical Association, a professional association of doctors in the Canadian province of British Columbia
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE), sometimes referred to as computerized provider order entry or computerized provider order management (CPOM), is a process of electronic entry of medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients) under his or her care.
In August 2018 there were problems with the repeat prescription system. More than 10,000 prescriptions that were cancelled on SystmOne software were not cancelled on systems used by community pharmacists. Later in August 20,000 updates made to patients' GP records using SystmOne were not transferred to their Summary Care Record. [13]