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2008 Group 7: Healthcare, Barcoding and Safety – Beyond Medication Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Advisors: Patrick Harris and David Roth, Pharma-Sys Inc. 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons About PharmaSys Inc. • PharmaSys is an international full service contract compliance and validation firm specializing in industries that must comply with 21 CFR (Pharmaceuticals, Bioscience, Medical Devices and Clinical Trials), based in Cary, North Carolina. • PharmaSys has recently begun creating a bedside verification system called eMeds. • Our advisor Patrick Harris is the product director of the eMeds system. 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Background • Point of care bedside verification systems have drastically reduced the amount of errors in medication delivery as well as specimen collection and blood transfusion • These systems can be implemented using RFID systems, barcoding and many related technologies 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Benefits • • • • Improves patient and medication safety Cost savings by elimination of mal-practice lawsuits Cuts down on paperwork Ensures patients of “five rights” before medication (right patient, right drug, right time, right dose, right administration route) • Connects the operations of pharmacy, physician, nurses and administration 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Last Years Group • Created a system of prototypes to verify drug delivery in hospitals • We are adding modules with functionality that includes Blood Transfusion and Specimen Collection • Our work will help make the system more robust and universal • The work from last years group is currently being tested in Pungo District Hospital in Pungo, North Carolina 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Project Goals Completed Expand the system to provide verification for blood transfusion Website makeover Expand the system to provide verification for specimen collection • **Expand the system to the ER and OR environments of the hospital • **Expand the system to provide verification for breast milk delivery 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons **Time permitting Current Work • Polishing the Blood Transfusion Use Cases and Prototypes • Polishing the Specimen Collection Use Cases and prototypes Use Cases: – Show how the ISBT–128 (barcode scanner) will respond to any given situation along each step of verification. 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Use Case for Blood Transfusion Alternative Actions (optional note attachment) Exceptions (something doesn’t check on the blood sample) 2/7/08 A Use Case has also been created dealing with Specimen Collection Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons ISBT 128 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Future Work • • • • Polish the Blood Transfusion Use Case Polish the Specimen Collection Use Work with Scanner to verify our prototype Polish both Blood Transfusion and Specimen Collection Prototypes • Total System Requirements • Integrating eMEDS into the hospital environment • Continued user friendly prototype design 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons Questions? 2/7/08 Group 7- Lauren Knish, Ross Morrison, Stuart Reasons