Wristband Formatting Best Practices: Key Considerations For Improving Patient Care

Maximizing patient safety and improving the quality of care is the ultimate goal for healthcare providers. Doing so requires staying within regulatory compliance, while also advancing staff retention and meeting fiscal constraints. Barcode technologies provide a “virtual voice” to patients, applications and workflows. Barcoding accomplishes this by laying a solid foundation for enhancing patient identification, providing visibility into medical practices, and driving efficiencies throughout healthcare applications, and is an integral part of electronic medical record (EMR) adoption.

Barcoded patient wristbands are an excellent way for medical centers to improve the safety and quality of care while meeting industry and organizational mandates. To gain the most benefit, the information provided on the wristband must afford easy readability, and deliver the right information in the right way. In addition, barcode wristbands used in maternity wards must be the right size and be built with infant-safe materials.

Healthcare personnel who are starting to look at a patient ID solution need to know the key considerations of patient wristbands from a formatting and design perspective. Maternity ward staff requires specific information so they can make the right decisions when it comes to barcoded infant wristbands. Like any technology or process, following proven best practices helps ensure a smooth transition to deployment and beyond.

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