Only 30 percent of 1,859 measured hospitals fully meet the Leapfrog Group patient safety standard for use of bar code medication administration technology, but a significant 74 percent fully meet the ...
In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...
A female Pharmacist scanning pill box. Barcode technology can reduce medication errors by ensuring that the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time, in the right dose, using ...
A newly implemented medication barcoding system at the Michigan-based Beaumont Health System helped the organization prevent some 23,500 possible drug errors within a six-month time period, officials ...
In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, hospitals face numerous challenges, such as ensuring patient safety, streamlining workflows, and reducing costs. One solution showing immense promise in ...
Medication errors have dropped and the number of nurses using bar code medication administration systems and physicians using computerized order entry systems has soared at Kaiser Permanente, which ...
Eisenhower Medical Center (EMC) President and CEO G. Aubrey Serfling announced today that Eisenhower is the first California healthcare provider to embark on a program to use barcode technology to ...
Using bar-code technology can substantially reduce transcription and medication errors, and prevent potential adverse events, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Bar-code technology that includes an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) significantly reduces potential drug-related adverse events and transcription and medication administration ...
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