The pharmaceutical industry needs machine-readable bar codes on unit-of-dose-measured packages. The National Coordinating Council for Medical Error Reporting and Prevention and other organizations such as: AHA, NAHIT, ASHSP, Premier, Novation and Ameri-Net have recommended that RSS bar codes be used also to encode the NDC, lot number and expiration date on medications and over the counter products. The FDA published the long awazited rules regarding the use of Bar Codes on Feb 25, 2004

BTI works with the Pharmaceutical packaging, regulatory, production and business managers to provide the best bar code software and hardware solutions to enable this industry to conform to potential regulations, and to meet market challenges.

The amount of essential information that a bar code can contain in machine-readable form allows healthcare facilities, such as a hospital pharmacy, to incorporate unit-of-dose drugs into an automated system, thereby helping to eliminate errors and fatal accidents.

BTI's success in bringing RSS to the pharmaceutical industry is exemplified by the pilot study conducted under the auspices of the Uniform Code Council, along with Abbott Laboratories and its partner, St. Alexius Hospital in Bismarck, North Dakota. The test demonstrated the reliability of RSS, as well as its capability of printing a great deal of different information, such as the National Drug Code, lot number and expiration date, on unit-of-dose-measured products.