Southpinellas: Behind the Bay Pines debacle: innovations, accusations

Southpinellas: Behind the Bay Pines debacle: innovations, accusations: "A few years ago, a Kansas nurse returning a rental car saw the attendant swipe a bar code on the car window, producing an instant receipt.
The nurse persuaded her local Veterans Affairs hospital to strap bar code wristbands on all patients. Before medicine was doled out, portable computers could show the prescribed dosage, recent test results, even what the patient had for breakfast.
Medication errors dropped 70 percent."