IntelliDOT Bedside Medication Administration™ Solution Makes 20 Million Medication Administrations With No Adverse Drug Events

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Article Date: 25 Sep 2008 - 5:00 PDT

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IntelliDOT Corporation, a leading provider of wireless handheld, barcode point-of-care (BPOC) solutions to hospitals, today announced that customers of its flagship IntelliDOT Bedside Medication Administration (IntelliDOT BMA™) BPOC system have accumulated a total of 20,253,410 error free medication administrations with no adverse drug events (ADEs) since the product's launch in 2002.

"This milestone confirms that IntelliDOT's BPOC system is fulfilling its promise to improve patient safety because it is so easy to use and on average adopted by more than 95 percent of client nurses," said Thomas G. Klopack, president and CEO of IntelliDOT. "Eliminating medication errors at the bedside is one of the founding principles of IntelliDOT and we are seeing thousands of error free med passes become reality at our customers' hospitals every day."

A September 2008 report of total medication administrations at 44 live IntelliDOT installations indicates that a total of 20,253,410 million medications were administered with no serious ADEs using IntelliDOT BMA. This equates to more than 1.6 million medications per month, 52,814 per day, 2,201 per hour and 36 per minute.

Stillwater Medical Center, Stillwater, OK was the first hospital to implement IntelliDOT BMA in 2004. According to Bill Arrington, Director of Pharmacy at the hospital, more than one million doses have been administered safely at their hospital using the IntelliDOT System.

"We've given more than a million medication doses using the IntelliDOT System and we know for a fact that it's safer," Arrington said. "We did a post-implementation study and our serious med error rate went to basically zero."

Another charter IntelliDOT customer, Parkview Medical Center, Pueblo, CO has achieved more than 3 million medication administrations without ADEs since it went live with IntelliDOT BMA in December 2005. To gain a deeper understanding of these results, working with IntelliDOT, Parkview undertook an in-depth study examining the impact of IntelliDOT BMA System safety checks on the medication error rate. Observers watched 250 medication administration procedures, a statistically significant sample, before and after the IntelliDOT implementation at Parkview, which revealed that the hospital reduced total medication errors from 51 out of the 250 administrations observed in the study, or 20 percent to 19 out of 250 or 8 percent. The 19 errors remaining post-IntelliDOT were attributed to IntelliDOT's dose reminder timing system being turned off on less time critical medications. Serious errors or ADEs were reduced from 5 out of 250 in the pre-implementation observations to 0 - a 100 percent reduction.

Other hospitals exceeding the 1 million mark in error-free medication passes with IntelliDOT BMA include Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma, Durant, OK and Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center - North and South, Poplar Bluff, MO.

The IntelliDOT System is a best-of-breed wireless, workflow manager that connects caregivers with the information systems they need at the point-of-care. Designed by nurses for nurses, the IntelliDOT System enables clinicians to perform safety checks and safely administer and document medications at the bedside using a lightweight, handheld device. The IntelliDOT System satisfies Joint Commission standards for patient identification and assures accuracy by verifying the five rights of medication administration: right medication, right dose, right route, right patient, right time; as well as ensuring required follow-up documentation, such as pain scale, is performed in a timely manner and accurately recorded.

About IntelliDOT® Corporation

IntelliDOT is a leading provider of wireless, handheld, barcode point-of-care (BPOC) solutions that connect to any healthcare information system to improve patient safety and nurse workflow. When using IntelliDOT Bedside Medication Administration, nurses can easily manage all tasks associated with five rights medication administration safety checks and related documentation. Additional system modules that run on the same handheld device include: IntelliDOT Phlebotomy Specimen Collection™, IntelliDOT Blood Product Administration™, IntelliDOT Mother-Baby Breast Milk Matching™, and IntelliDOT Vital Signs Collection™. IntelliDOT was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego.

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