An integration of the existing infrastructure and medical devices with the electronic module of a hospital is evitable. There are numerous benefits of integration as it leads to reduced wastage, increase in efficiency, reduction in costs and from integration an increase in patient safety. Numerous hospital devices have gone on to integrate with an existing system. Most of them have started integration of infusion patch pump devices with their existing systems.
The choice of a loop in the process of medical medication
For patient safety pump interoperability turns out to be a boon. A reason for the same is that barcode technology may be used with the workflow process of administering infusions. It has already extended its influence to trim down the adverse impact of drugs. This goes on to reduce the scope of errors when you are administering a medication by following the 5 points advocated for the same.
When it is a new workflow the nurse should be able to scan the drug, followed by a patient and then the pump would deliver the infusion. Such a process of medication will ensure that proper medication would be delivered on to the correct patient where all the pre-formulate programming steps are in order. The top infusion pump manufacturers ensure that all the steps are programmed well in advance. It is going to prevent errors upon administration when you bypass the manual entry of a medication along with infusion details of the pump by the nurse.
Other aspects
Coming to the interoperability of pumps it points to proper documentation. Since all the pumps are integrated with AHR, it is possible to automatically track down an infusion. The pumps are known to dish out all the data to the AHR that is authenticated by a sign of the nurse. What it means is that there should be no form of guessing on what was infused and what not. A shift may become busy and forget the necessary documentation of the same. When it comes to the question of controlled or high risk medications, accurate levels of documentation would be vital for existing patient safety. This makes sure that there is no form of diversion in any way.
An accurate level of documentation would also indicate an accurate less wastage leading to less waste. If the system is integrated it would warn a user when a pharmacy would be piping in a new bag or if the drip is low. All this leads to less waste along with less delays. A vital infusion like a processor may be formulated well in advance, and for interoperability less medications may be anticipated. It allows for a live run in on the intrusion that would be providing a high risk patient infusion remotely.
Pump operability is something that is going to rectify all issues but advocates a permanent solution to the same. But it would lead to an improved workflow and process. Providing patient safety at an enhanced level.
