Medication management solution wins MDEA silver award
Strict regulations and standards guide the preparation of medication at hospitals, but unfortunately, these are not always followed. In the operating room, where procedures and decisions often happen rapidly, noncompliance is especially common and can have dangerous consequences.
Safe Label System (SLS), a medication management solution from Codonics, is designed to reduce some of these drugs errors. Last month, the SLS won a Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) silver award at the 2014 MDEA ceremony, which was held at MD&M East 2014. Gary Enos, Vice President of Business and Technology Integration and International Affairs at Codonics, says that the company is honored to have received this award.
“We felt that this was a significant award for our company to try to win for all of the merits that MDEA reviews, from the medical device’s impact on the market space, impact on healthcare costs, things of this nature,” says Enos. “We are very proud to be in the winner’s circle. We recognize that we are in the company of many tremendously innovational and capable companies, and that means a lot to us.”
SLS uses bar code technology and a comprehensive database to scan and identify medication with audible and visible prompts. It then prints labels compliant with many safety guidelines and standards. The labels include information on a drug’s name, preparer, preparation time, diluents, diluter, concentration, volume, expiration time, and messages or alerts. When integrated with an electronic medical record system or anesthesia information management system, it also enables bar code confirmation of the printed label for record-keeping purposes. Codonics can make customized versions of the SLS for medical device manufacturers, who then place it on their anesthesia work stations.