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LaserBand®* ensures safety through crystal clear identification. Ward/Kraft is a Lexmark approved converter for the LaserBand®* product! The LaserBand®* family of products combine unique materials and constructions to form a patented, self laminating patient identification band that can be imaged in any laser printer. This all-in-one band has a large area for laser imaging the patient's name, numbers, multiple bar codes, color photographs, etc. In fact, anything that you can print on a plain piece of paper from a laser printer can be printed on LaserBand®* products. Best of all, the information is then kept totally secure with a clear film laminate. LaserBand®* comes in sizes from infant to adult, and in multiple size formats on a single sheet. Keep your patients safe and worry free with these customizable bands that allow you to ensure photo identification at a whole new level. Mike
West, CFC Bar
Codes Favored to Cut Hospitals' Drug Errors Many of the plastic identity bracelets that hospital patients wear will soon have an added bit of information embossed on them -- a bar code containing information designed to make sure patients do not get the wrong drug or dosage by mistake. Federal officials said yesterday that the additional information, which makes it possible to match individuals to their prescribed medications by computerized scanners, has the potential to cut in half the 7,000 hospital deaths attributed to medication error every day. © 2004 The Washington Post Company FDA
Requires Scanners In Hospitals Technology familiar to consumers everywhere from the supermarket to the video store will help make U.S. hospitals safer by reducing medication errors, federal officials said Wednesday. Rules issued by the Food and Drug Administration now require bar codes on drugs and blood products dispensed at hospitals. The rule reduces medication errors by allowing health professionals to use bar code scanners to make sure the right drug is given to the right patient at the right time, said Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Within a two-year phase-in period, all hospital drugs must have a machine-readable bar code that contains a unique number that identifies each medication. © 2004 USA Today FDA Rule Requires Bar Codes on Drugs and Blood to Help Reduce Errors As part of a wide-ranging effort to improve patient safety, on Feb. 25, 2004, FDA finalized a rule requiring bar codes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products. The measure aims to protect patients from preventable medication errors by helping ensure that health professionals give patients the right drugs at the appropriate dosages. Taken from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website *LaserBand® is a Federally Registered Trademark of LaserBand, LLC. |
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