By transforming patient experience, hospitals see improvements in their patient satisfaction and bottom line..
Accurate and permanent link between patients and their laboratory specimens are a necessity for prevention of identification errors. To obtain this, healthcare facilities are extending the capabilities of legacy laboratory information systems to the point of care.
In the healthcare industry, new technologies catalyse many positive changes. Also, they offer new opportunities to control quality of patient care and costs associated with it. Mobility is one such technology which bridges the gap between efficient patient care and availability of real time information. This technology combined with automation provides all the tools required by the facility administrators for unparalleled service and streamlined operations.
The prime goal of hospitals all over the world is to reduce every-day errors. These errors, apart from having monetary influences, also pose a severe harm to patients. According to a recent study, medication errors alone cause sickness, injury or death to at least 1.5 m in the US alone, at a conservative cost of $3.5b each year. In such a scenario,improving medical care at the point of patient contact becomes a necessity.
