Meta To Exhibit Medication Safety Products at Mid-Year ASHP in Orlando
Meta, a supplier of comprehensive medication safety information systems for the healthcare industry, announced today that it will exhibit its complete suite of closed loop medication safety products in booth number 2102 at the 43rd American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Mid-year Clinical Meeting in Orlando, Florida, December 7-11.
Floral Park, NY (PRWEB) November 11, 2008
Meta, a supplier of comprehensive medication safety information systems for the healthcare industry, announced today that it will exhibit its complete suite of closed loop medication safety products in booth number 2102 at the 43rd American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Mid-year Clinical Meeting in Orlando, Florida, December 7-11.
MetaCare Rx helps pharmacists manage all aspects of departmental objectives and allows an enterprise to strongly support patient medication safety initiatives by means of a comprehensive set of powerful yet flexible clinical modules. The modules include full database integration with Meta's Web-based point-of-care medication administration system, MetaCare eMAR, which helps eliminate errors via five rights checking utilizing bar code technology. Meta recently received international attention by achieving near perfect bar code compliance with what it believes may be the highest percentage of fully scanned medication doses in the United States.
Medication errors are one of today's most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year. According to a recent report issued by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively amount to over $3.5 billion annually. Medication errors occur at every stage of treatment, from prescription and drug administration to monitoring of a patient's responses. Not all errors lead to serious injury or death, but the number of preventable injuries that do occur is staggering.
"Meta has long been recognized as having outstanding functionality to reduce medication errors and improve patient outcomes through our pharmacy system," explained Ted Stucka, PharmD, Director of Professional and Clinical Services for Meta. "The MetaCare suite of patient safety products helps to virtually eliminate these errors by providing the nursing staff with sophisticated bar-coding technology that verifies identity and matches the correct medication, dose and route to the patient - all at the point of care."
Through the MetaCare suite, clinicians have access to detailed information about each patient's medication order, from clinical alerts and interactions that may have been encountered by the pharmacist at order entry to notes and alerts entered by other practitioners. Nurses also can easily monitor up-to-the-minute, critical patient indices such as vital signs and laboratory results.
Meta also will be demonstrating its new MetaCare IntelliDocs™ tool, which replaces paper collection of patient data and care information with an easy, user-defined, intelligent data collection system that eliminates repetitive data entry and becomes part of the permanent electronic patient medical record. This exciting product has huge potential in pharmacy, where tedious paper data collection and collation is time consuming, often inaccurate and illegible, compromising patient care.
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For nearly 20 years, Meta has been developing software solutions that meet the needs and exceed the expectations of the healthcare industry by providing innovative and comprehensive clinical information solutions to hospitals and other healthcare enterprises. Organizations seeking excellent products backed by highly motivated and committed support have chosen Meta for the best solutions at reasonable costs. For more information, contact Meta at (800) 768-1920.
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