From the receiving areas of hospital pharmacies to a patient bedside, the use of bar code readers to instantly read bar codes in the healthcare environment provides automated decision support that saves time and prevents serious errors.

Code bar code readers are quick and accurate in reading of all bar code symbols, linear and two dimensional, used by manufacturers of pharmaceutical and hospital consumable items, regardless of the surface. In addition, Code's modular design allow bar code readers to be configured to any hospital use case scenario, and in any area of a hospital.

Code bar code readers have been deployed in the following areas of a hospital, when all areas are deployed, a comprehensive Bar Coded Medication Administration process is created:

• Administration: patient wristband and medical records
• Laboratory: patient specimens
• Pharmacy: medication inventory and dispensing
• Phlebotomy: patient blood products
• Bedside: five rights of medication administration

Code Corporation is a market leader in manufacturing and distributing bar code readers for the healthcare environment. Code bar code readers decode all bar code symbologies even on the most difficult to read surfaces.

Code readers can integrate into any Health Information Services software, are certified where applicable by: CernerBridge, Cerner Millenium, Epic, McKesson, Meditech BMV, and Siemens Mak.