Enhance Patient Safety and Advance your EHR Project with Forms, Wristband, Medication and Specimen Barcoding
More than a decade of working with hundreds of hospitals like yours has taught us that your organization’s primary goal is delivering fast, appropriate care in a safe environment.
Unfortunately, pre-printed paper forms can jeopardize this aim. Forms that are not barcoded require manual indexing – a time-consuming and error-prone task that can threaten patient safety. Similarly, in the absence of barcoded wristbands, medication and specimen containers, patient identification errors can put lives in danger and increase your facility’s litigation risk.
To help you overcome these challenges, Access is committed to providing intelligent barcoding solutions that integrate with your core clinical and health information systems (HIS) to save time and money for your facility and, most importantly, create a safer care environment for your patients.
Access Patient Labeling System (PLS) uses native integration with your health information system to apply unique patient identifiers and form IDs to each form. Your enterprise content/document management (ECM/EDM) system then uses these barcodes to auto-index the forms with the correct electronic health record (EHR).
PLS also applies two-dimensional barcodes to patient wristbands, and can scale down even to newborn-size bands for use in the obstetrics (OB) department. These wristbands facilitate positive patient identification (PPID) throughout the visit, helping to ensure safe care delivery to the correct patient during every encounter.
Access Patient Labeling and Reporting System (PLRS) further enhances patient safety. When an order comes into eMAR system, a pharmacy technician can avoid the time-consuming and error-prone task of writing on medication labels. Instead, Access PLRS automatically outputs barcoded labels for the medication container/s. Before administering medication, nurses simply scan a patient’s barcoded wristband and then the medication label to ensure a positive match. This eliminates dangerous errors and reduces litigation risk.
In addition to improving the accuracy of medication dispensing, Access PLRS can also be used for outputting barcoded labels for specimens, vital signs and other items collected at patients’ bedsides.