Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Ziekenhuizen in Nederland kunnen tussen 100 en 170 miljoen euro besparen door invoering van gestandaardiseerde barcodes bij medische hulpmiddelen. Dit blijkt uit de GS1 business case ‘Patiëntveiligheid en efficiency in de OK’.
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Fleur Doidge, CRN
“A new standard for NHS patient identification has been released that should expand opportunities for the auto-ID channel.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Chances are, if you’re managing a hospital’s EHR workflow, someone still needs paper, and it’s a hassle moving data from paper into the EHR. Maybe someone is using intake forms for inpatients, or signed consents for same-day surgery patients.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Cook Children’s Health System, in Fort Worth, Texas, has initiated use of 2D barcodes on vaccine bottles, which facilitates the streaming of data into health record databases such as the Microsoft HealthVault patient portal and Athenahealth’s AthenaClinicals electronic health record (EHR) application.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A new 2-D barcode application developed through collaboration between Cook Children’s Health Care System, e-health record vendor Athenahealth, Microsoft, and two large drug makers can help clinicians and parents of pediatric patients to more easily manage vaccination information.
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Gearing P et al, Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 20(4)
As technology becomes more sophisticated in healthcare, there is increasing need to measure its impact on key quality indicators, such as error reduction, patient safety, and cost-benefit ratios. When a product is designed to decrease medical errors, the baseline error rate must be determined before implementation to accurately measure the impact. Given the opportunity to adopt a technology that would eliminate the need to manually document vital signs, a large Florida hospital decided to measure the current process and error rate of vital signs documentation.
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Joel Vincent, SmartGorillas
“The business of healthcare is more than mission critical; it’s life critical. Global efforts are underway to get all medical records electronically accessible.
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CMIO
“Wider use of EHRs, along with computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and barcode medication administration, could play critical roles in addressing the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals, according to a recent commentary in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Lenert LA et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Background
There is growing interest in the use of technology to enhance the tracking and quality of clinical information available for patients in disaster settings. This paper describes the design and evaluation of the Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD).
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Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider Acute
“NHS trusts have been given another 15 months to provide every patient with a barcoded wristband.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Ekahau, developer of Wi-Fi-based real-time location systems (RTLS) has partnered with Salo, Finland-based Nordic ID to roll out a solution that combines passive RFID with barcode labels.
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Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet
“A new all-in-one medical computer will make it easier for busy hospitals and medical centers to care for patients. Called the CyberMed, this Web-server -based system provides medical equipment connectivity for telemedicine and collaboration between clinicians at different health centers.
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Tamara Baluja, Globe and Mail
“Three Canadian hospitals are finally taking significant strides in transforming paper medical charts to electronic patient records.
Two hospitals in the GTA – St. Michael’s and North York General Hospital – as well as one in British Columbia have introduced a new barcode technology that allows healthcare workers to prescribe medication, order tests and deliver safer patient care all with a pass of a scanner.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“It sounds like Nurse Jackie’s worst nightmare: San Francisco’s UCSF Medical Centre patients have had one of the most significant risks to their well-being removed, now that a family of giant robots is dispensing their medication.
The robots, which tower over human beings, prepare oral and injectable medicines, including toxic chemotherapy drugs in a tightly secured, sterile environment. It’s also safer for pharmacy employees, and more productive: the automation frees UCSF pharmacists and nurses to focus more of their expertise on direct patient care.”
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Rubin AD, McFerran VA. The American Journal of Managed Care, 16(12 Suppl HIT)
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System seeks to align its purpose of “healing humankind” with its approaches for people and performance management. These approaches include lean process improvements initiatives, sustained by efforts to impact daily team member work flows. The electronic health record (EHR) serves as a powerful supportive instrument in improving processes and sustaining performance.
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James Bowden, HDM Breaking News
Since I became director of patient financial services at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J., in 2008, I’ve been on a mission to round up and digitize every paper document related to patient care before we begin our EHR installation in 2011. By the time Palisades goes live with Siemens’ Soarian system, all of our patient billing information will be under the control of a document imaging and management system.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“While clinical decision support might be one requirement for meaningful use, the technology that will simplify the clinical data analysis CDS entails seems to be a few years off. Right now, hospitals are getting the most bang for the CDS technology buck — and preventing errors in patient care — by applying it to their medication management processes.
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John DeGaspari, Healthcare Informatics
“I recently had an opportunity to speak with Mark Neuenschwander, an expert in drug dispensing automation and an advocate for the use of barcode point-of-care systems in hospitals. His goal, he says, is to “get the nation collectively off the dime and to do barcoding at all points-of-care all of the time.”
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David Ellis and Stephen W. Loree, H&HN Weekly
“The Detroit Medical Center’s electronic medical record is the culmination of a 12-year development that began with the implementation of a clinical information system in 1998. The EMR involved a final expenditure of $50 million and a concentrated one-year implementation beginning in 2004. The implementation and ongoing development have placed the Detroit Medical Center in the upper one-half to 1 percent of all U.S. hospitals in terms of EMR development.
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TICsanté
“Les patients hospitalisés ou admis aux urgences du centre hospitalier de Montluçon (Allier) depuis le mois de septembre sont identifiés à l’aide de bracelets à code-barres fabriqués par la société Zebra Technologies, dans la perspective d’une certification V2010 de l’établissement.
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