The unique and automated identification of pharmaceutical products to improve patient safety and treatment costing at the Regional Hospital, Poznań
The Regional Hospital in Poznań, Poland has been active since 1973 and is a multi-discipline hospital.
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Year on year, the hospital has been generating a negative financial result, so one of the initiatives aiming to improve its financial standing was the analysis of the cost of use of medications per ward and per patient – its second largest cost.
One of the first decisions was to begin implementing barcodes in the issuing of medication. The application of automatic data collection methods in the hospital’s logistics plays a crucial role in the process of streamlining the selected intra-hospital logistics processes, which also contributes to improving the hospital’s economic efficiency.
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