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 ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care (BCPOC) technology to positively impact medication ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Leapfrog Group, a Washington D.C.-based watchdog organization representing employers and other purchasers aiming to improve healthcare quality and ...

Mark Neuenschwander is founding director of the THRIV Coalition. He is a longtime patient safety advocate and academic responsible for hospital bar coding and other initiatives. He and THRIV now are ...

(NYSE: MSI) today unveiled the new disinfectant-ready wireless handheld scanner which provides nurses and lab technicians with the ability to scan both 1D and 2D bar codes at the patient bedside to ...

In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, hospitals face numerous challenges, such as ensuring patient safety, streamlining workflows, and reducing costs. One solution showing immense promise in ...

However, researchers discovered an average of three clinician workarounds per medication administration. Nursing workarounds included failure to scan medications/patient armband and scanning the bar ...

To incentivize nurses to fully integrate bar-code scanning into their routine workflow, scanning rates were incorporated into their performance evaluations, with awards given to nurses and hospital ...