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◦ symbology that is widely used in industrial bar code ◦ Usually used in healthcare systems
applications. It is discrete, self-checking, variable ◦ Requires an asterisk at the beginning and end
length symbology that can be printed readily by a
variety of technologies. Every character has five
bars and four spaces; three of the elements in any
given character are wide, and six are narrow. Every
symbol starts and ends with a unique start/stop
character.
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GS1Databar
GS1-128 (UCCEAN 128)
◦ It is a small, compact barcode capable of identifying
◦ Manufacturers and for shipping small items and encodes more information than the
UPC retail barcode
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Centralized Method
Decentralized Method
Hybrid method
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A. Patient name
B. Medication name
and strengths
C. Time of
administration
D. Bar code for
bedside scanning