Mobile Clinical Assistant Reduces Errors 18%

By Integrated Solutions magazine

Each year, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) cares for more than 33,000 in-patients and instructs nearly 3,000 health sciences undergraduate and graduate students. As its facilities expanded, MUSC wanted a more efficient nursing documentation and medication administration system, leaving its existing paper-based system with fixed computer stations behind. Ideally, the solution would improve patient care through more accurate patient documentation and an optimized workflow, both geared toward increasing clinician satisfaction. "We were an early adopter with an electronic data repository for lab results and data on patients, but we did not have a clinical documentation application for nurses; we didn't have bar-coded pharmaceuticals," explains John Waller, M.D., chief medical information officer for MUSC.