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Over a decade ago, San Diego-based
Cardinal Health Corporation pioneered a new product
category in healthcare – automated medication
dispensing. Today, with more than 4,000 customers,
Cardinal Health is the leading provider of medication
and supply dispensing systems to hospitals, nursing
homes and other healthcare facilities.
Situation
Motivating Forces
- Administration errors contribute to medication errors
and subsequent adverse outcomes, costs, and litigation.
- Technology to assist with acute, long-term, and
ambulatory care is necessary to facilitate
accuracy, efficiency,
and optimal patient outcomes.
- Health Care Professionals embrace technology
when it supports patient care, and when it
facilitates optimal nursing workflow and process.
- Organizations seek ways to enhance services,
accuracy, and patient satisfaction through
patient-centered care.
Solution
- Odyssey Wireless Sync provides real time data flow
between the hospital server and mobile devices carried
on the floor by health care professionals.
- Odyssey’s Veri5 user
interface provided a friendly and intuitive means
to display and collect patient and medication information.
- The Veri5 scanner promotes the concepts of patient-centered
care.
- The Veri5 scanner completes the medication delivery
process to the patient at the initiating point
of care, i.e. with the patient and the nurse.
Benefits
Automated double-check of the "5 Rs": Right
medication, to Right patient, in Right dose, at the
Right time, via the Right route, helping to reduce
medication errors at the point of administration.
The verification of these key areas leads to the
fulfillment of the system goals of:
- Decrease errors during medication administration
- Decrease documentation steps and time for the nurses
Technology
Wireless Synchronization, Handheld Device, Database
Management, Bar Code Scanning. Information Display
and Collection.
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