The Final Frontier of Automation:
Automating the Anesthesia Process
Overview
For a hospital that dates back over 125
years, Saint Luke’s in Kansas City, Missouri
was definitely not lagging behind the
technology curve.
The hospital has a
history of...
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The Final Frontier of Automation:
Automating the Anesthesia Process
Overview
For a hospital that dates back over 125
years, Saint Luke’s in Kansas City, Missouri
was definitely not lagging behind the
technology curve.
The hospital has a
history of innovation and relies heavily on
automation to enhance their quality of care.
Saint Luke’s employs a patient-centered
integrated model where pharmacists are
proactively engaged in medication selection
and management with the multidisciplinary
care team.
As part of an ongoing effort to improve
patient care, the hospital regularly reviewed
processes, and in 2009, the focus was
on the pharmacy model and anesthesia
dispensing process.
Doug DeJong, Director
of Pharmacy, explained the hospital
initiative.
“At the time we were going
through a review of our distribution model,
deciding whether we wanted to continue
with a decentralized model or go with
a hybrid approach.
We recommitted to
a decentralized model, added additional
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