Point-of-Care Safety Suite helps reduce medication errors.
Press Release Summary:
Designed for hospitals, solution enables nurses and other clinicians to monitor orders for patients, determine location of medications, pre-program pumps for IV infusions, verify accuracy of administered medications, and document to existing hospital IT systems. Point-of-care technology also allows clinical data to flow from hospital pharmacy information system through single Cardinal Health interface. System also supports reporting to other hospital IT systems.
Original Press Release:
Cardinal Health Launches New Point-of-Care Safety Suite to Help Hospitals Reduce Medication Errors
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26 -- HIMSS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION -- Cardinal Health, the leading provider of products and services supporting the health-care industry, today launched a new point-of-care offering to help hospitals reduce medication errors.
For the first time, nurses and other clinicians will be able to use one application to monitor orders for their patients, determine the location of medications, pre-program pumps for IV infusions, verify the accuracy of medications administered and document to the hospital's existing IT systems. This is made possible by new technologies from Cardinal Health and a new seamless information flow among its Care Fusion(R) bedside verification application, Pyxis MedStation(R) units and Alaris(R) System IV pumps.
Cardinal Health is the first and only company who can offer a complete suite of automated dispensing cabinets, smart infusion pumps and bedside bar code verification systems, and have them communicate seamlessly with one another. The new point-of-care technology also allows clinical data to flow from the hospital pharmacy information system through a single Cardinal Health interface. The system will also support reporting to other information technology systems in the hospital.
"Our new point-of-care technology will help hospitals solve some of their most difficult problems in improving patient safety and will make the medication workflow for clinicians simpler and safer by eliminating many of the hand-offs that lead to mistakes," said Dwight Winstead, group president of Clinical Technologies and Services for Cardinal Health. "In addition, it will allow hospitals to leverage their current and future investments in Pyxis(R), Alaris(R) and Care Fusion(R) products."
Cardinal Health is in a unique position to offer an end-to-end solution for managing the medication and information flow for all medications. Offering the industry's most comprehensive combination of technologies, services and information, Cardinal Health helps hospitals manage all medications from the pharmaceutical distribution center to the patient bedside.
To leverage this capability Cardinal Health also launched today Integrated Medication Solutions to help hospitals more efficiently purchase and manage their medications through the entire medication use process. Integrated Medication Solutions include a collection of systems, services and expert consultants that maximizes safety, efficiency and cost savings throughout the medication management process. Initially, Cardinal Health's solutions will be targeted to Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and large hospitals.
Cardinal Health made today's announcement from the floor of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HiMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition being held here from Feb. 25 through March 1.
About Cardinal Health
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE:CAH) is an $81 billion, global company serving the health-care industry with a broad portfolio of products and services. Through its diverse offerings, Cardinal Health delivers health-care solutions that help customers reduce their costs, improve safety and productivity, and deliver better care to patients. The company manufactures, packages and distributes pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, offers a range of clinical services and develops automation products that improve the management and delivery of supplies and medication for hospitals, physician offices and pharmacies. Ranked No. 19 on the Fortune 500, Cardinal Health employs more than 55,000 people on six continents. More information about the company may be found at www.cardinalhealth.com.
