DocumentCode
2859728
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
fYear
2007
fDate
25-27 June 2007
Firstpage
34
Lastpage
45
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HCMDSS-MDPnP.2007.11
Filename
4438162
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