Hospitals that assess their technologies, align their databases, and strengthen their culture of safety can reduce error-prone manual infusion programming, streamline nursing workflow, and ensure accurate and timely capture of infusion data.
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What Hospitals Can Do to Be Ready for Smart Pump-EMR Interoperability
Hospitals that assess their technologies, align their databases, and strengthen their culture of safety can reduce error-prone manual infusion programming, streamline nursing workflow, and ensure accurate and timely capture of infusion data.
 

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Source: The Boston Globe
 

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