Healthcare IT News October 13, 2021
Patient safety advocate Mark Neuenschwander is now working to make hospital intravenous therapy as safe as humanly – and robotically – possible.
Mark Neuenschwander is founding director of the THRIV Coalition. He is a longtime patient safety advocate and academic responsible for hospital bar coding and other initiatives. He and THRIV now are focused on IV robotics.
Neuenschwander is also partially responsible for the FDA Bar Coding Rule and says pharmacy automation in hospitals is the next phase of his work.
Technicians preparing IVs, pharmacists checking techs’ work and nurses hanging bags cannot verify contents simply by looking at the fluids. Nor do they have tests for confirming that the doses were accurately prepared. Only automation can ensure one removes...
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