What does NDC stand for?

The EcoRexA;NS utilizes barcode technology already widely used in hospitals to track drug utilization and prevent medication errors and a proprietary, continuously updated database of more than 160,000 National Drug Code (NDC) products, to instantly categorize pharmaceutical waste at time of presentation.

Affected national drug codes include 57664-437-88 and 57664-437-18.

These products will all bear the National Drug Code or NDC prefix of: 64054.

GAO found that (1) the rule would require certain human drug and biological product labels to have bar codes that must contain the National Drug Code number in a linear bar code, which FDA states will help reduce the number of medication errors in hospitals and other health care settings by allowing health care professionals to use bar code scanning equipment to verify that the right drug is being given to the right patient at the right time; and (2) the FDA, with the exception of the delay in effective date, complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule.

FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan said, We are interested in extending this to devices, but there is no equivalent to the National Drug Code in devices.

HHS also expects to release a notice of changes for the transactions and code sets rule, including doing away with the National Drug Code code sets mandate, he adds.

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The EcoRexA;NS utilizes barcode technology already widely used in hospitals to track drug utilization and prevent medication errors and a proprietary, continuously updated database of more than 160,000 National Drug Code (NDC) products, to instantly categorize pharmaceutical waste at time of presentation.