Barcode Technology and Electronic Medication System in Healthcare

Running Head: HISTORY ESSAY 0
History essay
10/19/2018

HISTORY ESSAY 1
The history essay brings about the discussion on the technology, which had major
social impact or transformed the communication system, and saved millions of lives. Here, it
is a draft that includes the discussion of a technology that is used is known as ‘Barcode
technology and electronic medication system’, implemented by the health professionals in the
healthcare settings. Thus, the essay will include the use, impact on the society, or patients in
context to the healthcare, providing benefits to the administration or challenging the
technology.
Discussing the social impact of the electronic prescribing and medication
administration system it has been found that it improves the patient care and treatment
leading to enhanced quality of social environment of any country. Bar code reader is the
device that can read and output printed barcodes to a computer. In healthcare systems,
implementation of the bar code scanning device improves the management and
administration of medication provided to the patients. The bar code system in the hospitals
improved usefulness, accuracy, consistency, efficiency, time-management, and the ease of
the performance of the medication process in the healthcare (Leung et al., 2015). It resulted
into enhanced safety of the patients, and the nurses perceived that the process became less
prone to the errors, and those which even occur during the process are easily detectable. This
in turn benefits the society, as it involves the culture of safety aspects of patients in the
healthcare, enhances the documentation and communication between the doctors, health
professionals and the consumers or patients. Thus, indirectly it improves the levels of society
by saving life of millions of people, and leads to efficiency of the system in the nation
(Seibert et al., 2014).
Electronic medication system and the BCMA (Bar code Medication administration),
has changed the definition of technology in the modern era of healthcare system. Previously,
there was manual system to record the details of the patients, and their medication or
treatment. Now, with the increased complexities, there is an advancement of the technologies
used in the hospitals and the major one is the use of bar code scanning system. The use of
BCMA improved and provided an infrastructure for the front-line nurses to collaborate with
the doctor leaders, in the healthcare settings and other health institutions (Westbrook et al.,
2015). It was meant to improve the communication, to integrate and improve the healthcare
practices, which led to the betterment of the society as a whole. Thus, in the field of medicine
use of electronic medication or BCMA, led to the enhancement of the health-system,