Customer:

Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago

Background:

Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago is repeatedly recognized as one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country and has been named as one of the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report magazine for 12 consecutive years. The 270-bed pediatric trauma and research center employs 1,100 pediatric specialists who treat more than 94,000 kids each year, with 335,000 total outpatient visits annually.

Objective:

To adopt technology that would help reduce serious medication errors, while increasing patient safety and care, and facilitating the use of multiple wireless devices.

Benefits:

Real-time, interactive point-of-care/activity information retrieval

Bedside medication administration and drug-use evaluation

Durable medical equipment and other asset management and tracking (RFID)

Bedside admitting, discharge and transfer

Wireless nurse-call stations

Use of wireless PCs for clearer record keeping and decreased medical error

Enhanced communication with uninterrupted paging, PDA and cellular service, even on underground floors, and in stairwells and elevator shafts

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