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 ...
MIT alumni entrepreneurs Gauti Reynisson MBA '10 and Ívar Helgason HS '08 spent the early 2000s working for companies that implemented medication-safety technologies—such as electronic-prescription ...
The implementation of point-of-care BCMA required the ongoing collaboration of the pharmacy, nursing, and informatics departments. The informatics department was essential in the planning and ...
To date, the experience of only one hospital with the order-entry system has been documented. However, we believe that similar results are being realized at the other participating facilities. At this ...
Hospitals adopt supermarket-style bar-code systems to enhance patient safetyFREEHOLD – New Jersey hospitals are turning to information technology normally found in retail settings to help caregivers ...