This is the kind of thing that I fight for at my hospital ALL of the time. Granted, it won't eliminate errors all together, but it will eliminate traditional deadly errors like illegible handwriting, unlabled use or off-policy use of drugs, etc.... Yes, it can generate a new kind of error with menu selection mis-matches, but these can be attenuated with flexible, dynamic programming (adjustment of menu selections to prevent confirmational bias, hard-stops, etc).
Problem is, this crap costs SERIOUS money and invariably, won't want to play well with 'legacy' hospital systems (which is a rather insurmountable problem at our hospital right now). Finally, it's running Vista, which would give the IT department a coronary (to consider a Vista platform when we've only recently finally gotten to WinXP (last 2.5 years) would not go well.)
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This is the kind of thing that I fight for at my hospital ALL of the time. Granted, it won't eliminate errors all together, but it will eliminate traditional deadly errors like illegible handwriting, unlabled use or off-policy use of drugs, etc.... Yes, it can generate a new kind of error with menu selection mis-matches, but these can be attenuated with flexible, dynamic programming (adjustment of menu selections to prevent confirmational bias, hard-stops, etc).
Problem is, this crap costs SERIOUS money and invariably, won't want to play well with 'legacy' hospital systems (which is a rather insurmountable problem at our hospital right now). Finally, it's running Vista, which would give the IT department a coronary (to consider a Vista platform when we've only recently finally gotten to WinXP (last 2.5 years) would not go well.)