CareFusion Corp. CFN, a
leading, global medical technology company, today announced the implementation
of a solution that connects its Alaris^® System smart infusion pumps with the
Cerner Millennium^®1 electronic health record (EHR) at Children's Hospitals
and Clinics of Minnesota. The technology is designed to help reduce the risk
of harmful and costly intravenous (IV) medication programming errors at the
patient bedside.
Intravenous (IV) medication errors are twice as likely to cause harm to
patients as medications delivered via other routes of administration.^2 With
this new interoperability, through the Cerner CareAware iBus^™1, the Alaris
system can be wirelessly pre-populated with infusion order parameters directly
from the Cerner Millennium EHR. Instead of manually programming the pump using
the keypad at the bedside, the pump is programmed through scanning a barcode
on the smart pump via Cerner's Point of Care Medication Administration
solution. Programming pumps with infusion parameters from the verified
physician order helps ensure accurate medication administration and
documentation and reduces opportunities for human error.
This solution covers IV medication administered through both the pump and
syringe modules of the Alaris System. Children's Hospitals and Clinics of
Minnesota is the first pediatric hospital system in the U.S. to enable
bi-directional communication between the infusion pump and the EHR for both
syringe pumps and large volume infusions.
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