Any Increased Tension Between China and The Us - Blame it on Obama

For someone who graduated from Yale, you'd think that Barack Obama would understand global trade and the global economy a lot better than he does. [in my opinion]. Apparently, he doesn't because he doesn't understand [or perhaps care] that many of his actions are creating tensions between China and the United States. No, China has not been the world's best trading partner, but they have been our largest trading partner.

And yes, it is true that China has taken advantage of the United States' ability to purchase due to our strong middle-class to import almost as much as China was able to produce previously. Today, China could easily produce enough products for three or four countries the size of the United States. The entire EU, all put together barely equals the GDP of the US. So that would mean there are two countries so to speak with the ability to buy that number of products, but China could produce enough for five.

Therefore, China cannot continue its year-over-year growth of 10% by exporting products forever, there aren't enough customers, and are not enough raw materials in the world for them to keep doing this. Eventually they're going to have to produce products for themselves and allow other nations to come up in the world so that they can produce products for them as well. What they've done is overproduced for a world that does not need that much.

Because of this ability to overproduce, their prices have also come down on many items and this has hurt American manufacturers. Most of the manufacturing companies in the United States which use union labor are upset that all of their manufacturing jobs are going overseas. President Obama made good on a campaign promise he made before his election to help the steel workers union by levying tariffs against China's exports recently.

You see, although President Obama has not often made good on his promises as President, he has discovered that the healthcare insurance bill was going to charge an additional tax for "Cadillac Health Care Plans" which meant that many of the steel worker union employees, most of them, would be charged extra money for their healthcare insurance.

Therefore, the union did not support Obama's health care plan. So to make this up to them and to make good on his promise before the election he put a tariff on Chinese tires. In other words, he would sacrifice US Chinese trade relations to appease the unions, this is the same type of union that caused the auto industry to collapse, and have lobbied for more regulations on corporations to serve the union's political will, forcing American companies to take their jobs overseas.

President Obama is now part of the problem, in my personal or professional opinion after following politics, and free trade issues for over 30 years. I honestly believe Obama should be impeached. And I believe this should happen immediately. Please consider all this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes that we need better leadership.

Bridging the Gap Between Pharmacy Drug Dictionaries and Barcode Scanning

A source of frustration for the nursing staff is when the bedside scanning system cannot identify the medication from the data in the medication's barcode. Inaccurate error messages lead to "work-arounds" which put patients at risk. The issue is that not all medication barcodes are created equal. They may contain more information than just the FDA's 10-digit NDC number, such as lot numbers, expiration dates and other manufacture data. This information can change regularly.

In order for accurate bedside scanning to take place, drug dictionaries must be built and properly maintained to correctly identify medications in the bedside scanning system. NDC Translator is the bridge between the barcode scanner and the bedside scanning system. It will save you hundreds of hours setting up and maintaining your hospital's drug dictionary.

For a medication to be correctly identified during the bedside scanning process, the "ever-changing data" in the barcode must always be entered into the bedside scanning system. When scanning a drug manufacture's barcode, NDC Translator evaluates the data for the presence of an NDC number. If it finds one, the scanner outputs the 11-digit NDC number which is a standard component of a bedside scanning system's drug dictionary.

History behind NDC numbers

The National Drug Code (NDC Number), is a unique 10-digit identification number, assigned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to all prescription medications. This number is the only mandated component of the medication's linear barcode.

NDC numbers are comprised of three parts;
4 or 5 digit manufacturer identification number
3 or 4 digit product ID made by the manufacturer
1 or 2 digit product container size code

For example:
Plavix FDA issued NDC number: 63653-1171-1
1171 = Plavix 75mg product ID
1 = container size code

Because of the variations that can exist in each part of the NDC number, three possible 10 digit number sequences are produced.

1234 -1234 -12
12345 -123 -12
12345 -1234 -1

The variations in formatting came about because the FDA ran out of four digit manufacturers ID numbers. To maintain the original 10 digit length, the FDA lets the manufacturer choose to shorten the product ID or container size code by one character. The health care industry has standardized to the 5-4-2 format by adding a zero into the part of the 10 digit NDC that does not match a full 5-4-2 sequence. To demonstrate this point, below is what the new sequences look like:

1234 -1234 -12 01234 -1234 -12
12345 -123 -12 12345 - 0123 -12
12345 -1234 -1 12345 -1234 - 01

NDC Translator can output the 10 or 11 digit NDC number with or without dashes.

Hospitals across the country are working toward having an eMAR and bedside scanning system. NDC Translator is the bridge between the barcode scanner and the bedside scanning system. It will save you hundreds of hours setting up and maintaining your hospital's many drug dictionaries.

For over 15 years RxScan has been providing healthcare facilities with solutions to assist in the preparation, administration and dispensing of medications. Our products are used across the entire country including Puerto Rico. Over the past several years, we conservatively estimate that several billion medications have been scanned using our solutions.

Thank you for reading about NDC Translator Software. RxScan has been providing pharmacies around the country with their barcode expertise since 1996. See for yourself! Please click here to request your 30 day license of NDC Translator. For additional information about the solutions we provide, please visit http://www.rxscan.com

Any Increased Tension Between China and The Us - Blame it on Obama

For someone who graduated from Yale, you'd think that Barack Obama would understand global trade and the global economy a lot better than he does. [in my opinion]. Apparently, he doesn't because he doesn't understand [or perhaps care] that many of his actions are creating tensions between China and the United States. No, China has not been the world's best trading partner, but they have been our largest trading partner.

And yes, it is true that China has taken advantage of the United States' ability to purchase due to our strong middle-class to import almost as much as China was able to produce previously. Today, China could easily produce enough products for three or four countries the size of the United States. The entire EU, all put together barely equals the GDP of the US. So that would mean there are two countries so to speak with the ability to buy that number of products, but China could produce enough for five.

Therefore, China cannot continue its year-over-year growth of 10% by exporting products forever, there aren't enough customers, and are not enough raw materials in the world for them to keep doing this. Eventually they're going to have to produce products for themselves and allow other nations to come up in the world so that they can produce products for them as well. What they've done is overproduced for a world that does not need that much.

Because of this ability to overproduce, their prices have also come down on many items and this has hurt American manufacturers. Most of the manufacturing companies in the United States which use union labor are upset that all of their manufacturing jobs are going overseas. President Obama made good on a campaign promise he made before his election to help the steel workers union by levying tariffs against China's exports recently.

You see, although President Obama has not often made good on his promises as President, he has discovered that the healthcare insurance bill was going to charge an additional tax for "Cadillac Health Care Plans" which meant that many of the steel worker union employees, most of them, would be charged extra money for their healthcare insurance.

Therefore, the union did not support Obama's health care plan. So to make this up to them and to make good on his promise before the election he put a tariff on Chinese tires. In other words, he would sacrifice US Chinese trade relations to appease the unions, this is the same type of union that caused the auto industry to collapse, and have lobbied for more regulations on corporations to serve the union's political will, forcing American companies to take their jobs overseas.

President Obama is now part of the problem, in my personal or professional opinion after following politics, and free trade issues for over 30 years. I honestly believe Obama should be impeached. And I believe this should happen immediately. Please consider all this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes that we need better leadership.