Barcode medication system

July 23, 2008

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Actor Dennis Quaid, whose twins were given an overdose of a blood thinner as newborns at a California hospital, toured a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to learn about a system to prevent such errors.

Officials at Children’s Medical Center Dallas showed Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, the hospital’s system of bar-coding medications to allow the drugs to be tracked electronically from the point of dispensing until being administered to the patient.

“This system here at Children’s Medical Center, I’m really amazed … it’s beyond cutting edge,” Quaid said at a news conference after the tour.

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