Healthcare providers are squeezed by Medicare and insurance companies to hold down costs, while consumers and doctors want more services and flexibility. Considering the liabilities that healthcare providers have to guard against, the necessity for extreme accuracy and efficiency is clear. Automated identification products such as barcode and barcode readers, mobile computers , wireless networks , and RFID can aid in the efficiency and accuracy for all healthcare providers. These products can help healthcare professionals collect and track patient information, reduce medical errors, improve staff productivity and reduce costs. Bundled solutions that target Healthcare market applications like asset tracking, patient medication verification, and home care, provide real solutions for real problems.
By developing strategic partnerships with best-of-breed ISVs and world class hardware manufacturers, BlueStar's "In-a-Box" Series provides a jump start for those who provide or wish to provide solutions for Healthcare. These "In-a-Box" Solution bundles consist specifically of selected hardware that is best suited for the targeted solution, including peripherals that complete the solutions offering. Solutions are available for these segments:
Providing the wrong medication to a patient can have adverse consequences. Though this is not common place, anytime it happens is one tim
e too many. That is why the 4 Rs have been implemented with the administration of medication. The 4 Rs are
Right Patient,
Right Medication,
Right Dosage, and
Right Time. Using a
mobile computer the barcode label on the patient's ID bracelet can be scanned to identify the patient, the barcode associated with the medication could be scanned to verify the right medication, the dosage could be verified against what should be given, and finally the medication is given at the proper time.
Mobile healthcare providers who work with clients at their home, nursing homes or other remote locations need to have information concerning their patients
. With an integrated
voice and data mobile computer caseworkers have the ability to do the same work in the field as they would in the office. Using these mobile computers loaded with patient information, when legal to do so, can aid the mobile healthcare provider with valuable information. The 4 Rs of medication verification can be adhered to:
Right Patient,
Right Medication,
Right Dosage, and at the
Right Time. By using a
mobile computer, the barcode label on the patient's ID bracelet can be scanned to identify the patient, the barcode associated with the medication could be scanned to verify the right medication, the dosage could be verified against what should be given, and finally the medication is given at the proper time.
Not locating a piece of medical equipment in a timely manner can be trying and expensive to any hospital or healthcare facility. Often when a piece of
equipment is needed, there may not be time to properly check it out or simply it is not done.
RFID technology could help determine where medical equipment is located or the carts that carry them. By placing
RFID tags on the medical equipment or the cart that carry that equipment and placing
RFID readers in strategic places within the facility, the movement of equipment can be tracked as it leaves one area and enters another. Since
RFID is a passive technology, it does not require human involvement and items are tracked automatically as certain points are passed.
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