Synopsis
The hospital segment of the health care industry is facing extraordinary pressure to provide better patient care and demonstrate improved patient outcomes, while continuing to achieve measurable cost reductions. As one tactic in attaining these goals, health-system pharmacy departments are re-engineering their workflows through the implementation of process shifts that facilitate new pharmaceutical care models. Consequently, they have employed technology to automate the distribution of drug product throughout the organization. These automation advances include barcode tracing of doses from the pharmacy to the patient bedside.
