Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

According to a research study published in BMJ Quality and Safety, medication errors can occur in 20 to 25% of dose administrations in the inpatient setting. That is an astounding number – and one ...

When nearly 20 years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new rule 1 that pharmaceutical manufacturers must include a linear bar code on all immediate drug packages that included each ...