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Success Story

East Tennessee Children's Hospital implements Medication Management

July 31st, 2009 

 

 

East Tennesse Children's Hospital is a 152 bed pediatric medical center, located in Knoxville, TN. 

"We began using Endur ID armbands and the BioPoint PI software in May 2009 as our Respiratory Department began electronic medication administration. Over the next three months we began the same process in all our inpatient nursing departments. We considered quality armbands essential to the early success of this project. Since we were expecting caregivers to scan the patient armband with every medication administration we wanted to provide them the best possible armband for scanning. 

We are proud to say that in the three months since implementation our patient armbands have been scanned in over 96% of medication administrations - almost 60,000 doses in that time.

I attribute this to a few things. First, we were able to place multiple small, two-dimensional barcodes all over the armband without sacrificing barcode quality. With our patient population the armband curvature made one-dimensional barcodes almost impossible to use with consistent success. Second, the quality of the armband material itself allowed us to print these small barcodes on laser jet printers - with barcode quality equivalent to what thermal printers produce and without needing a laminate overlay to prevent smudging.

From my perspective this was the most successful aspect of the entire project. Because we have had no issues with the armband scanning we were able to respond much more quickly to other procedural issues related to the project overall."

                                                     Kenny Rivard, Clinical Systems Analyst