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Bar Code Technology in the Healthcare Industry. Practical Compliance Solutions. www.aders.biz. 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.
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Bar Code Technology in the Healthcare Industry Practical Compliance Solutions www.aders.biz
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) www.aders.biz
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 www.aders.biz
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 www.aders.biz
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? www.aders.biz
Electronic Medical Record Do these medications sound the same? www.aders.biz
Electronic Medical Record Do these packages look the same? www.aders.biz
Electronic Medical Record • 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 www.aders.biz
Our Point Of Care Solution • ADERS (Adverse Drug Event Reduction System) • Bedside Medication Verification (BMV) • The Five Rights • Right Patient • Right Medication • Right Dosage • Right Time • Right Route of Administration www.aders.biz
Why ADERS? (Features) • 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) www.aders.biz
Why ADERS? (Benefits) • Everyone Benefits! • 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 www.aders.biz
ADERS Back Office • Enter Patient Information or import it from existing systems • Generate Medication Schedules • Generate statistics on actual prevented events • Investigate possible adverse events www.aders.biz
ADERS Back Office • Interfacing with existing systems • Can be very Automated • Can be somewhat Automated • Import quarterly NDC List from FDA • Available 24x7 365 • Scheduled maintenance does not require down time • Strictly Tactical • ADERS does not collect insurance, billing, Credit Card, SSN, or any other information that can be used for identity theft www.aders.biz
Our Guarantee • 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 www.aders.biz
Coming Soon to ADERS • Specimen Collection • Pain Scale Collection • Other Charting Activities • Transactional XML Interface • Preemptive warnings • Medication stop/re-start for facility www.aders.biz