Question

Controversy for barcode scanning in healthcare like patients bands

Answer 1

Over past few decades many advanced technologies are introduced into health care system. One such technology is the use of barcode system. In addition to patient safety and identification, it also provides improved operational functions.

Advantages

▪Every day hospitals deal with inventory problems, tracking materials and patient identification. This is time consuming can lead to manual errors. Barcodes helps in this situation.

▪Barcodes help in patient identification

▪Implementing barcodes improve specimen collection by accuracy in labelling. This avoid mixing up of specemens and givind wrong diagnosis

▪Barcode system provide an extra saftey yo the patient in medication administration. This reduce the medication errors. It helps to give right medication to the right person at right time and frequency with right dose.

▪Barcodes scan is fast and reliable and take less time to enter the datas.

Disadvantages

▪Errors can occur in printed barcode label

▪Not all products contain barcodes and not all barcodes are standardized.

▪Equipment problems like missing arm bands, insufficient data quality, illegible barcodes.

▪ Software issues can limits its use especially in emergency situations.