Transcript Selling Bar Code Technology to the Healthcare Market

Bar Code Technology in the
Healthcare Industry
Practical Compliance Solutions
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To Err is human?
As many as 98,000 People in America die
each year due to medical errors of
which 7,000 deaths could be related
specifically to medication errors.
(Institute of medicine, report 1999)
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The FDA’s Response
FDA REQUIREMENT
Bar coding on all prescription drugs
packaged for hospital use as of
4/26/2006
*FDA, Food and Drug Administration
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The FDA’s Response
Just having the barcodes does not help
anyone! To prevent medication errors,
you must use the barcodes.
PCS Has a cost effective solution to do so
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Electronic Medical Record
WHY EMAR?
Both of these prescriptions are for the same drug.
Does either one of these words look like the word Synthroid?
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Electronic Medical Record
Do these medications sound the same?
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Electronic Medical Record
Do these packages look the same?
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Electronic Medical Record
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Must be created by a human
How to prevent mistakes at creation
How to prevent mistakes after creation
Barcode technology used provides a
possible error 1 in every 100,000,000
scans.
The system will catch that error
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Our Point Of Care Solution
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ADERS (Adverse Drug Event Reduction System)
 Bedside Medication Verification (BMV)
 The Five Rights
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Right
Right
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Patient
Medication
Dosage
Time
Route of Administration
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Why ADERS? (Features)
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Using Latest PDA Barcode Equipment
Stand Alone System Open Interface
Browser Based Back Office
Pocket PC or CE.NET Point of Care
Real Time or Batch
Flexible to grow with your needs
HIPAA Compliant 45 CFR 164.502(a)(1)(iii)
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Why ADERS? (Benefits)
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Everyone Benefits!
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Facility Benefits
Patient Benefits
Patient’s family Benefits
Caregiver (nurse) Benefits
Facility’s Insurance Company Benefits
US Economy Benefits
Potential to save lives
Potential to save money
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ADERS Back Office
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Enter Patient Information or import it
from existing systems
Generate Medication Schedules
Generate statistics on actual prevented
events
Investigate possible adverse events
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ADERS Back Office
ADERS Back Office
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Interfacing with existing systems
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Import quarterly NDC List from FDA
Available 24x7 365
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Can be very Automated
Can be somewhat Automated
Scheduled maintenance does not require down time
Strictly Tactical
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ADERS does not collect insurance, billing, Credit Card, SSN, or any
other information that can be used for identity theft
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ADERS Point of Care
The menu system is easy to navigate
and designed to allow the user to
access any operation from any screen.
 Perform patient lookups
 Transfer a Patient
 Administer Medications
 Get a schedule of what is due now
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ADERS Point of Care
The patient lookup screen shows the
patients' statistics, schedule of what has
not yet been administered, PRN orders,
history of what has been administered,
diagnosis, special instructions (could
include allergy information), and primary
care physician.
From the patient lookup one could
administer medications or transfer the
patient.
Our Guarantee
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Try ADERS for 90 days for free
If it does not fit or do everything that
we say it will then don’t buy it
Everything that you need to install it
and make it work is on the CD
We can install it for you
We are constantly updating ADERS
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Coming Soon to ADERS
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Specimen Collection
Pain Scale Collection
Other Charting Activities
Transactional XML Interface
Preemptive warnings
Medication stop/re-start for facility
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