Baxter Introduces Comprehensive Guide for Building a Smart Infusion System Drug Library
April 20 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
- Guide covers comprehensive drug library
development and integration with an electronic health record
(EHR)
- Provides structure for drug library
development that considers the entire medication pathway, from
preparation to delivery
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX), a leader in innovative
technology for medication delivery, today announced a new,
comprehensive guide to building a smart infusion system drug
library. The guide is available now on the website of the Institute
for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)—the leading medication safety
organization—at www.ISMP.org.
Drug libraries help clinicians identify potential infusion
errors before they harm patients by checking the pump’s programming
against a curated list of medications and fluids and their
medically appropriate dose ranges. If programming exceeds drug
library limits, smart pumps will alert clinicians.
“A carefully built drug library is critical for the safe and
effective use of any smart infusion system. This publication guides
comprehensive drug library development and integration with an
electronic health record, and is designed to advance infusion
safety in all hospitals regardless of infusion system,” said guide
lead author, Tim Hoh, RPh, senior manager, Medical Affairs,
Baxter.
Baxter incorporated input from ISMP into a tool intended to be
used by the many diverse stakeholders within a hospital, including
the pharmacy team, nursing staff, prescribers and IT
representatives, all of whom serve crucial roles on building and
maintaining the drug library.
Baxter developed the guide based on real-world experience
helping to build drug libraries for thousands of healthcare
facilities that use the Sigma Spectrum Infusion System,
which has resulted in hospitals achieving an average 97 percent
drug library compliance rate within the first month of
implementation.
About Sigma Spectrum Infusion System
Sigma Spectrum’s hardware works in concert with the
pump’s software to encourage use of innovative features that are
designed to help enhance patient safety and clinician efficiency.
For example, the pumps automatically default to the installed drug
library without requiring clinicians to take extra steps to
“opt-in,” and drug library updates can be delivered wirelessly to
pumps in the facility without interrupting clinical workflow.
Sigma Spectrum is the only pump to include a built-in
Dose/Rate Change Error Prevention Feature, which helps clinicians
protect high-risk infusions during titrations, and allows
pharmacists to customize dose change limits for individual drugs.
Sigma Spectrum also includes features like integration with
electronic health record (EHR) systems—including Cerner® and
Epic®—to help streamline clinical workflow and improve accuracy of
IV infusion documentation, built-in real-time location tracking of
equipment within a facility to protect against misplacement,
enhanced data analytics and use of standard IV set technology that
can yield up to 53 percent cost savings in IV tubing sets and 30
percent reduction in IV tubing use.1
Rx Only. For the safe and proper use of this device,
refer to the appropriate operator’s manuals.
About Baxter
Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential renal and
hospital products, including home, acute and in-center dialysis;
sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral
nutrition; biosurgery products and anesthetics; and pharmacy
automation, software and services. The company’s global footprint
and the critical nature of its products and services play a key
role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed
countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the
company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the
next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient
care.
Baxter and Sigma Spectrum are trademarks of Baxter
International Inc.
Cerner is a registered trademark of Cerner Corporation and/or
its subsidiaries.
Epic is a registered trademark of Epic Systems Corporation in
the United States and/or in other countries.
1 Data on File. Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Total cost of
ownership standard set technology inventory and cost reduction data
2011- 2013. *Data provided by these facilities. Baxter makes no
guarantee of cost savings.
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