Title :
Point-of-Care Support for Error-Free Medication Process
Author :
Liu, J.W.S. ; Shih, C.S. ; Yeh, H.C. ; Hsiu, P.C. ; Chang, W.H. ; Tsai, P.H. ; Yu, C.Y.
Author_Institution :
Acad. Sinica, Taipei
Abstract :
Technological advances and critical needs have led to medication administration devices and tools designed to prevent and reduce medication errors. They include smart medication carts, robots and dispensers for professionals and smart dispensers for naive users. This paper describes architectures and interfaces of these devices. It also discusses support environment that is needed to increase their effectiveness and missing standards that will enable their integration into medication process tool chain.
Keywords :
medical administrative data processing; user interfaces; error-free medication process; medication administration devices; medication process tool chain; point-of-care support; Computer errors; Drugs; Hospitals; Information science; Intelligent robots; Job shop scheduling; Medical robotics; Medical services; Robotics and automation; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems and Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability, 2007. HCMDSS-MDPnP. Joint Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3081-9
DOI :
10.1109/HCMDSS-MDPnP.2007.11
