Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, January 8th, 2006
The integration of Omnicell's medication dispensing cabinets and bedside medication administration system adds six new safety checks, while eliminating the need for nurses to search for patients in cabinets or document overrides and other decisions at both the cabinet and the patient bedside.
With Omnicell's point-to-point medication safety solutions, a nurse signs in using a secure pass code and the system automatically lists his or her patients and due meds, according to Moss. Through a series of bar code checks, the...
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