As the healthcare industry increasingly adopts Electronic Medical Records Systems and other technologies to drive patient safety improvements, positive patient identification has become the lynchpin of bedside applications. By scanning bar codes on patient wristbands - hospitals are dramatically reducing errors in medication administration and specimen collection.
Join Charles Still, Senior Systems Analyst at Southwestern Vermont Health Care, and Kathie Trotter, healthcare business development manager at Zebra Technologies, to learn best practices for implementing wristband scanning as part of automated medication administration.
Whether your facility is in the beginning stages of implementation or has been doing it for some time, this presentation will provide valuable insights around:
- Cost-effective solutions
- Improving positive patient scan rates to 98% or more
- Identifying and resolving nurse workarounds
- Best practices for selecting bar code printers and patient wristbands
