Coding for Success: Simple Technology for Safer Patient Care.

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Coding for Success: Simple Technology for Safer Patient Care.

March 14, 2007

Healthcare Quality Directorate, Department of Health. London, UK; Crown Copyright: 2007.

This report discusses the impact that automated technologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and barcoding, could have on health care in the United Kingdom and provides a plan to support their adoption in the National Health Service.

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