Baptist Health Systems: Uses Technology to Improve Medication Management, Eliminate Errors

Baptist Health Systems Uses Technology to Improve Medication Management, Eliminate Errors Case Study At a Glance Organization Baptist Health Systems Jackson, Miss. – 640-bed Medical Center – 25-bed acute long-term care hospital – Cancer center Solution... More

Baptist Health Systems Uses Technology to Improve Medication Management, Eliminate Errors Case Study At a Glance Organization Baptist Health Systems Jackson, Miss. – 640-bed Medical Center – 25-bed acute long-term care hospital – Cancer center Solution Spotlight – AcuDose-Rx® – Clinical Consulting Group – Horizon Admin-RxTM – Horizon Expert DocumentationTM – Horizon Expert OrdersTM – Horizon Meds ManagerTM – ROBOT-Rx® Critical Issues – Patient and medication safety – Inefficient, manual processes – Operational inefficiencies – Financial performance Results – Achieved a 94% bar-code scanning compliance rate, with 70% of nurses and pharmacists noting the system prevented mistakes – Eliminated pharmacy callbacks related to legibility issues and missing time/date stamps for medication orders – Reduced medication time from order to delivery by 38% – Recouped 25,000 nursing hours and 2,000 pharmacy hours annually – Saved more than $937,000 in nursing costs alone Hospital management recently Less