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Why Bar Codes and RFID in Healthcare?

Proper Identification of People and Objects in Healthcare can Save Human Lives.

Reports like the one below appear in newspapers on a daily basis:

"A patient in Virginia switched beds to be near the window, then died after the hospital gave her a blood transfusion with her roommate's blood type. A Florida woman died after receiving the wrong blood because a technician mislabeled her blood sample. In St. Louis, a man underwent successful heart surgery only to die in recovery after staff mistook him for someone else and grabbed the wrong blood bag."

Source: Article in The Boston Globe  

Adverse healthcare events are not just a topic for the news. Investigations from international and national agencies report more frightening facts such as the one from GS1:

"Institute of Medicine only in the USA 44.000 to 98.000 people die in hospitals each year due to preventable medical errors. This is more than the amount of people that die in traffic accidents.
10% of hospital admissions in the UK and New Zealand result in patient safety incidents and at least half of these could be prevented."

Source: http://www.gs1.org/docs/healthcare/Case_Global_Data_Standards_Healthcare.pdf

Causes of Healthcare Errors

Research shows that casualties have been attributed to:

  • Human Factors
  • Medical complexity
  • System failures

 

System failures can be further divided into:

  • Poor communication, unclear lines of authority of physicians, nurses, and other care providers.
  • Complications increase as patient to nurse ratio increases.
  • Disconnected reporting systems within a hospital: fragmented systems in which numerous hand-offs of patients results in lack of coordination and errors
  • Drug names that look alike or sound alike
  • Inadequate systems to share information about errors hamper analysis of contributory causes and improvement strategies

Many of these failures can be prevented.

Do you want to find out how the failures can be prevented and how this would benefit patients, caregivers and insurance companies, but not lawyers?

Best Practices for Healthcare Systems.

 

 

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