Case Study
TFDA, CCH And GS1 Taiwan Advancing GS1 Barcodes To Improve Patient Safety
TFDA, CCH and GS1 Taiwan advancing GS1 BarCodes to improve patient safety By Liang-Chin Wang, Taiwan Food and Drug Administration and Su-Yu Chien, Changhua Christian Hospital A BS T R AC T To prevent medication errors, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration ( TFD A ) is dev eloping a r egula tion tha t will r equir e pr in ting bar c odes on prescription drugs, which will promote the use of automatic identification