Construction of high-risk drugs using RFID for medication safety system
The Medication Safety System Applying RFID to Improve the Safe Use and Distribution of High-Risk Drugs Xie Jiaxing
a,LI Zheng Ru
a,Liu
ab,Chi-Chen Wu
bChia-Hsing Hsieh
a,Cheng-Ju Lee
a,Li Liu
ab,Chi-Chen Wu
b Institute of Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, a Taipei Medical University Hospital vice president of the b Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University aVice Superintendent, Taipei Medical University Hospital b
Abstract:
Today, "Medication safety" is one of the most important requirements for
"patient safety". JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) also referred that the medication errors were the most common reasons among medical errors that should be prevented. Although many systems have been already applied to improve medication safety, unfortunately, human errors in the medication processes still happen.
For this reason, in order to improve medication safety and reduce human errors, we present in this paper a MSS (Medication safety system) in applying RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technologies to refine the traditional checking process of "Five Rights and Three Checks safeguards "to enhance the managements of high-risk drugs. Further, this system also shows great possibility of providing extensive services for drugs control and management in whole hospital.
Key Words:
RFID, Patient Safety, Medication Safety, High-Alert Medications, look- alike/sound-alike drugs
