ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Hospira, Inc.
(NYSE:
HSP), a leading provider of clinical information and medication
delivery technologies, today announced the unveiling of the Hospira
MedNet™ Portal at the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition in
Orlando. This web-based application will provide healthcare
institutions with advanced medication error reporting and patient
safety benchmarking capabilities. It will be available as an add-on
feature to the award-winning
Hospira MedNet safety software.
Hospira MedNet Portal, on demonstration at HIMSS booth 6449,
improves a hospital’s ability to monitor, benchmark and evaluate
intravenous (I.V.) drug administration practices. With this new
technology, healthcare institutions will have access to
side-by-side, blinded comparisons of their own safety software drug
libraries and infusion performance data with the same information
from other institutions. Users can look at data by hospital size,
institution type or specific clinical care areas to help them
develop and refine their drug library. The software system also
allows clinicians and hospital staff to view internal and external
peer benchmarking reports to drive improved I.V. medication safety
and to help enhance clinical and operational outcomes. Hospira
MedNet Portal supports continuous quality improvement efforts by
helping users analyze key aspects of their drug administration
process against best practices and by providing a more complete
picture of clinical performance indicators.
“Our hospital customers are telling us that they’re not just
buying infusion pumps, they’re also investing in the safety data
that comes from the infusion devices,” said Richard Nevin, vice
president, Me
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