Enhancing safe medication practice

Methodist Medical Center, a 353-bed facility with almost 600 board-certified physicians providing a full spectrum of health care services, has signed an agreement to install the InformMed system for enhancing safe medication practice. Methodist will be the first hospital in the country to implement the system from InformMed in the emergency department and take advantage of its patient safety features. The InformMed system will provide care nurses at Methodist with access to essential information that insure dosing calculations are correct, independent double checks complete. By taking advantage of the system nurses will be able to focus their time and effort on delivering the care only they can provide their patients. (Anthony Howard, Administrative Director of Emergency Services for Methodist.)

Two-to-Watch: Kelsius automates temperature monitoring of refrigerators and cold rooms, simplifying task management and providing cost effective compliancy reporting for users in the healthcare industries. http://www.kelsius.com. CMSense from Cain Medical provides a simple solution to acquiring data from bedside medical devices such as patient monitors, ventilators and infusion pumps. Clinical applications can be given the ability to be compatible with a wide range of devices, rapidly and with the confidence to support any hospital applications. http://www.cainmedical.com.