Access Patient Labeling System - Enhance Safety by Facilitating Positive Patient Identification
If your hospital is like many healthcare organizations, you’ve adopted several systems that improve safety by encouraging positive patient identification (PPID). However, your PPID initiative may be lacking a vital component: forms and wristband barcoding and automation.
Access Patient Labeling System (PLS) - part of the industry-leading Access Intelligent Forms Suite (IFS) - enables registration clerks at the front desk and in the emergency department and specialty clinics to print barcoded forms and wristbands with two-dimensional barcodes the moment a patient is registered in the health information system (HIS). This is done at the same time as Access IFS generates intelligently barcoded forms that facilitate auto-indexing in the electronic health record via the document imaging or enterprise content/document management (ECM/EDM) system.
With Access PLS, your facility can:
- Output barcoded forms and wristbands at the point of admission with minimal user effort
- Improve the availability of current and accurate patient data
- Reduce the risk of harm to patients and litigation risk caused by errors resulting from incorrect patient identification
- Boost registrar productivity and speed registration by eliminating the need to manually affix barcodes
- Support bedside medication verification (BMV) and medication dispensing via eMAR
“Access products are improving patient safety as part of our barcoding solution, by ensuring positive patient identification every time. Quality of care has also improved because nurses use the barcodes for bedside collection of vital signs, specimen collection and to make sure that all orders for the patient have been placed.”
John Meharg
HIT Director
Norman Regional Health System