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Health Care & Life Sciences

Medical and Surgical Error Reduction
Electronic Medical Records
Portable Medical Data
Forms-Driven Process Automation

BTI has a suite of products and integrated IT solutions to address today's health care challenges:

• Reduce medication and surgical errors

• Streamline hospital admissions and workflows associated with doctors’ orders and prescription processing

• Introduce Intelligent Medical Forms as a high value, rapidly deployed, interim step towards implementing electronic medical record systems

• Provide portable subsets of individual medical records that can accompany military and other security personnel for use in the field

Medical and Surgical Error Reduction

Correct and safe medication of patients is among the foremost duties in a health care facility. Medication and surgical errors can cost millions of dollars per incident. Despite various attempts to safeguard against errors, dispensing mistakes continue to occur daily. According to Institute of Medicine (IOM), over 98,000 deaths occur annually in the US due to medical and surgical errors.

To ensure that the right medication is given to the right patient at the right time, BTI's system uses inFusion eForms to automate the medication ordering workflow and reduce prescription errors associated with handwriting and data entry in hospital pharmacy systems. The pharmacy prints and applies bar code labels using BTI bar code print software on the medication package or vaccine. The bar code includes information about patient identity, medication type, dosages, and frequency.

Pharmaceutical orders are also embedded in a bar coded wristband worn by the patient. The nurse scans the bar code on the medication package as well as the bar code on the patient wristband and provides the treatment only if the nurse can confirm the appropriate match.

Surgical errors, including wrong-side and wrong-site surgeries, represent another major problem for hospitals that result in serious clinical error and costly liability. BTI has developed the Medibar, an adhesive decal, to apply a bar code to the skin of a patient scheduled for surgery. The bar code includes information about the patient (name, age, gender) and surgical procedure. The added redundancy reduces the likelihood of performing surgery on the wrong location.

Medibar can also generate small bar codes decals to be applied to medical instruments. Each instrument is scanned and inventoried prior to surgery and just before the patient is "closed" to ensure that all instruments are accounted for.

Intelligent Product Code (IPC) can be used to manufacture and apply thermo sensitive bar codes that change color or provide other alert-oriented information in the event that temperatures exceed minimum or maximum temperature standards during transportation or storage of medicines and vaccines. [top]

Electronic Medical Records

Hospital and other health care providers have long engaged in reducing their paperwork burden. By connecting traditional data across organizational boundaries to administrators, providers, and researchers, these organizations can reduce administrative costs, improve patient care, deliver new treatments to market faster, and meet tighter compliance requirements.

With President Obama's stimulus plan highlighting the national priority to improve health care operational efficiency and cost saving, BTI's Intelligent Medical Forms (IMF) serves as a sensible rapid-deployment and incremental-ROI solution to bridge to a full Electronic Medical Record system, which may take years to complete and is unable to sustain productivity in the interim. [top]

Portable Medical Data

In disconnected environs, the lack of patient medical information can be troublesome and even life threatening. Critical medical information embedded into a GS1 Databar or other reduced symbology bar code that can be applied to ID cards, military dog tags, or other items easily transported by individuals. In the event of an emergency and/or where a caregiver does not have access to a patient’s medical records the bar code can be scanned to display information about allergies, blood type, unique medical conditions, and other data critical for determining proper treatment. [top]

Forms-Driven Process Automation

inFusion eForms can be used to streamline inefficient forms-driven processes, for example, hospital admissions, doctors’ orders, purchase requisitions, JCAHO accreditations and international equivalents. inFusion extends the optimization beyond the hospital's boundaries, equipping the emergency medical technicians (EMT) and paramedics with the capability to to capture medical data while in route to hospital. Patient information is entered into an off-line electronic form on an tablet pc in the ambulance which is transmitted to the emergency room via cellular or WiFi communications and then routed via automated workflow. The system also ties in to the local fire department's information system to provide data synchronization. [top]