Digital Transformation of Medication Identification: Technological Evolution
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Nguyen, Hoang Nam
Madanian, Samaneh
Nguyen, Minh
Merry, Alan
Parry, Dave
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IOS Press
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Medication errors pose a significant health challenge, contributing to thousands of deaths annually. This systematic review explores the technological evolution of medication identification: Barcode/Quick Response (QR) Code systems, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)/Near-Field Communication (NFC), and Computer Vision, used to reduce errors and enhance patient safety. 140 articles from different databases were reviewed to compare their strengths, limitations, and applications. While barcodes offer cost-effective scanning, they require line-of-sight, RFID/NFC provide robust data retrieval yet faces high costs, and Computer Vision excels in flexibility despite computational demands. Combining these technologies could optimize safety.Description
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Computer Vision, Digital Health, Medication Identification, RFID, 0807 Library and Information Studies, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, Medical Informatics, 4203 Health services and systems, 4601 Applied computing
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Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, ISSN: 0926-9630 (Print); 0926-9630 (Online), IOS Press, 329, 1684-1685. doi: 10.3233/SHTI251163
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© 2025 The Authors. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).