Barcodes reduce medication errors

Healthcare experts across the country are encouraging hospitals to adopt bedside barcoding to reduce harmful medication errors, according to Business Wire.

Barcode verification of medications in hospitals effectively reduces medication errors, which harm an estimated 400 000 patients each year, including one in fifteen paediatric patients.

Until now, the debate over which solution best addresses medication error has long favoured computerised physician order entry (CPOE) over barcode point-of-care technology but this view is shifting.

Nightingale's solution, Nightingale On-Demand 8.1 has been certified for Clinical Management Systems (CMS) Specification 2.0 by OntarioMD effective immediately, states News Wire.

Nightingale is a healthcare Application Service Provider (ASP) of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software and supports Ontario physicians by maintaining the standards and certifications that OntarioMD has in place.

Nightingale is in the final stages of working with OntarioMD and SSHA to complete the CMS ASP certification.

St. Joseph Hospital in Orange County, California is using the Omnivex's software to provide better access to the operative status of each patient in its operating facility, according to PR-Inside.

The hospital's existing patient database is updated as patient and operative statuses change.

Omnivex's intelligent digital signage solution enables the hospital to deliver critical patient data from that system - appropriately formatted in real-time - on 14 large-format LCD monitors located throughout the operating facility - from pre-operative to surgery to the post-operative care unit.