FDA weighs updating its bar-code mandate hospital pharmacies worry about implementation

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More than 90% of the manufacturer-produced pharmaceutical packages arriving at the central pharmacies at Geisinger Health System's two Pennsylvania hospitals boast linear bar codes. That is pretty much true at hospital pharmacies throughout the U.S. David W. Jungst, RPh, PharmD, BCPS, Director of Pharmaceutical Care Services at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, confirms the omnipresence of linear bar codes on drugs reaching his central pharmacy. But Sarasota, again, like most hospitals, repackages a small number of non-bar-coded, unit-of-use packages-in Sarasota's case, at a co-op facility 60 miles away.