Enhancing patient safety by implementing an electronic system for medical orders and GS1 barcode scanning
The Paediatric Teaching Clinical Hospital wanted to transition from its manual, paper-based processes of ordering and administering medicines into automated ones, supported by GS1 standards.
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One major goal of the project was to improve patient safety and significantly minimise (or even eliminate) medicationrelated errors.
In collaboration with GS1 Poland and other partners, the hospital implemented new processes supported by GS1 identification standards encoded in GS1 DataMatrix barcodes. IT systems were integrated to support the new processes. Now medical orders can be automatically generated (called an e-order). As medications are administered to patients, GS1 barcodes are scanned to ensure the right patient takes the right medicine, at the right time. This information is also recorded in the patient’s electronic medical record. As medicines as used, they are replenished for optimal inventory management.
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