Nurses spend as much as 35% of their time on documentation tasks alone. Increasing compliance directives, documentation demands, training requirements and other pressures can sometimes compete with providing hands-on, quality care for the more acutely ill patients populating hospitals today.

Hospira MedNet can mitigate the pressure and support enhanced patient care by providing useful tools and meaningful information to streamline workflow and expedite documentation:

• Intuitive, easy-to-learn drug library is customized to a facility's practice needs
• Real-time data and alerts allow nurses to address issues promptly
• Aggregated infusion data enables Nurse Managers to make improvements in workflow, staffing and utilization

• Hospira MedNet can help reduce IV infusion errors at the point of care, alerting nurses to possible errors immediately
• Support for 5-Rights Verification and eMAR documentation assure compliance and create a safer workplace; these programs can be "built in" with auto-programming

The Hospira MedNet System affords hospital pharmacists the opportunity to set the standards for quality and patient safety by using technology to automate, evaluate and reduce errors in IV infusion administration by establishing and enforcing rule sets. Hospira MedNet provides useful tools and meaningful information to help assure compliance at the point of care and to help evaluate and refine the infusion process.

• Hospira MedNet integrates with a hospital's drug information system, so that only drugs in a given formulary are listed on the device
• Customized drug libraries or rule sets can be developed for individual Clinical Care Areas (CCAs), such as NICU
• Hospira MedNet can integrate seamlessly with a BPOC system for bar-code compliance and with the eMAR system to support 5-Rights Verification

• Hard limits and alerts displayed on the infusion device prevent clinicians from dosing outside pharmacy guidelines
• Soft limits and overrides are permitted or not according to facility best practices guidelines
• Reports verify compliance, monitor alarm events, monitor medication use and provide other data to help pharmacists drive improvements in patient safety and clinical care

The Hospira MedNet System supports efforts to improve patient safety and see quantifiable results, increases institutional effectiveness by promoting compliance with hospital standards and guidelines, helps enhance employee retention by fostering a safe work environment and allows administrators to send the strong message that their hospital is committed to patient safety with the most current technology available.

• Alert logs quantify impact on patient safety
• Report detail potential medication errors caught, providing a roadmap for clinical improvements
• Device tracking and utilization reports allow the effective management of assets

• Decreasing the number of device programming steps frees up their time
• System helps ensure compliance with physician orders, hospital dosing standards and clinical and safety guidelines
• Improved decision-making and accuracy promote quality of care
• Historical and real-time data help improve patient outcomes

• Auto-programming helps reduce errors, making nurses' jobs easier
• Employee retention can be enhanced by creating a safe place for staff to work, where they have the confidence to improve patient safety with their actions

• System can be implemented rapidly and cost-effectively
• Flexible, tiered system grows with and adapts to a hospital's changing needs
• Reports help drive and measure effectiveness of improvements to patient safety and clinical care processes

The key to success in Clinical Engineering is being one step ahead of the system and being able to anticipate needs. The Hospira MedNet System helps Clinical Engineers effectively manage the introduction and maintenance of the many infusion devices throughout the hospital complex.

• Asset tracking and usage reports help pinpoint the amount and type of devices a facility requires, precluding the costly purchasing of extras to account for lost devices
• Modular, tiered system grows with a facility to accommodate up to 2,000 infusion devices
• System can help anticipate maintenance and extend device life

• Asset tracking utilizes the hospital's existing wireless infrastructure without the need for an expensive investment into RFID technical infrastructure and ID tags
• Asset Tracking Tools provide device description, serial number, location, network status and last communication time
• Access Point Mapping can assign a descriptive name to each access point on the network, such as "East Wing, 3rd Floor North, near nursing station," making the locations real and easy to interpret

For most IT professionals in healthcare, patient safety is their number-one priority, with electronic medical record implementation being a close second. Hospira MedNet supports both of those IT issues (and more) with an open architecture approach that provides scalability and extensibility to bring patient safety to the point of care.

Hospira MedNet is built with modular application groups composed of key functional components that allow you to align the application to your technology needs and staff resources now, and in the future. Review the platforms.

• Open system supports clinical IS interfaces, including pharmacy and BPOC
• Wireless multi-band module offers a/b/g option for greater security
• Established, reliable technology is customizable and scalable to a hospital's IT and clinical needs
• Scalability and modularity protect IT investment

• Open architecture supports easy transition
• System supports seamless migration from wired to wireless network and across the a/b/g spectrum
• IT staff members can select their own server
• New device types and locations are easily added, and pump software is easily upgraded

• Advanced encryption technology supports IEEE 802.11i standard to improve security
• Multiple 802.1x authentication schemes: EAP-TLS, TTLS, FAST, PEAP
• WPA and WPA-2 for data protection across entire 802.11i standard
• HIPAA- and FDA-compliant to protect patient data