Point-of-care support for error-free medication process
Journal
2007 Joint Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems and Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability, HCMDSS/MDPnP 2007
Pages
34-45
Date Issued
2007
Author(s)
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.
Type
conference paper