On adding drugs to the pharmacy or dispensing the drugs from pharmacy, currently the users add drug manually with the NDC numbers, LOT numbers, date of expiry and relevant details.
Has anyone implemnted barcode within inventory, such that on scanning barcode of the drug, it automatically adds drug to the inventory with appropriate NDC number, LOT number and manufacturing date.
This will make the pharmacy users life simple, when they have a list of inventory items to be added.
Terry Hill has done some work using bar codes with labels fon use on hard copy patient documents in ambulatory surgery.
Bar codes are used on meds for in-patient care, such that RN’s scan the bar code before administration to decrease the likelihood of giving the wrong med to the wrong patient.
Our understanding is CFR mandated only NDC to be bar coded. Anything else is optional (at the discretion of the manufacturer). Is there any other recent guideline that has mandated lot number and / or expiry date? Could you please provide link. We had explored this option for samples but found CFR specifically exempts drug samples from bar code mandate.
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Currently we dont have any links having the bar codes for expiry date and lot numbers.
On a real time world we see openemr users entering the pharmacy related items one by one manually. This can also be subjected to human errors while entering the data.
So wanted to check for a way if we could process this automatically…