Comments on: Putting Medications Closer to the Patient Room Helps Everyone Get Better Care http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/putting-medications-closer-to-the-patient-room-helps-everyone-get-better-care/ Discover Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: San Diego Office Furniture http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/putting-medications-closer-to-the-patient-room-helps-everyone-get-better-care/comment-page-1/#comment-500 San Diego Office Furniture Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:10:36 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/?p=6291#comment-500 Perhaps as the automated dispensing machines become less expensive it will be possible to have them located throughout the hospital instead of only in a centralized location. That idea raises some interesting questions about stocking individual units. Using a swipe card and pin code system would probably take care of security and tracking who is accessing what medications in accordance with hospital policy. But, having a dispensing or storage unit actually in each room might not make sense unless you had a pneumatic tube system (like in a bank) to deliver the meds from the hospital pharmacy. How would the hospital know which meds to stock in each room and in what quantity? Inventory inefficiencies might make a decentralized option tough to figure out at first. Perhaps at least keeping commonly prescribed drugs on hand in distributed locations on each floor would be a start. Daisy McCarty http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/ Perhaps as the automated dispensing machines become less expensive it will be possible to have them located throughout the hospital instead of only in a centralized location.

That idea raises some interesting questions about stocking individual units. Using a swipe card and pin code system would probably take care of security and tracking who is accessing what medications in accordance with hospital policy. But, having a dispensing or storage unit actually in each room might not make sense unless you had a pneumatic tube system (like in a bank) to deliver the meds from the hospital pharmacy. How would the hospital know which meds to stock in each room and in what quantity? Inventory inefficiencies might make a decentralized option tough to figure out at first. Perhaps at least keeping commonly prescribed drugs on hand in distributed locations on each floor would be a start.

Daisy McCarty
http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/

]]> By: Dustin Ver Beek http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/putting-medications-closer-to-the-patient-room-helps-everyone-get-better-care/comment-page-1/#comment-490 Dustin Ver Beek Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:52:41 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/?p=6291#comment-490 Interesting article. Interesting article.

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