by
Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | July 19, 2011
From the July 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
That type of feedback could prove useful to manufacturers as they plan their next generation of pumps.
Pumps of the future
For manufacturers, most of their energy is being directed toward tying infusion pumps to other information systems. The pumps already speak wirelessly to a pump server, with event logs going to the server for example. Now, according to Sparnon, it needs to go to other systems. “If you tie your pump server to the pharmacy information system, you can pull patient specific dosing information and send it to an infusion pump,” she says.
“Another side is documentation. Once you’ve started infusion of the machine it can talk back to the electronic medication records system, it can save nursing time,” Sparnon says. “Currently, nurses are asked to enter data into the electronic medication record, manually. But with automatic documentation, they can wait to confirm the automatic data until the end of their shift or a quiet moment. That’s actually a function being pursued by all the different pump suppliers.”
DOTmed Registered Infusion Pump Sales & Service Companies
Names in boldface are Premium Listings.
Domestic
Anwar Abdelqader, CBE Medical, Inc. , CA
DOTmed Certified
Arnold Wiesel, MFI Medical, CA
DOTmed Certified
Peter Leonidas, Soma Technology, CT
DOTmed 100
William Clarke, Bio Med Tech, FL
James Fowler, BioMed Techs Inc, FL
Carlos Vargas, INCAV, FL
DOTmed Certified
John Mc Mahon, Quality Medical South, FL
Monte Montain, Alternative Source Medical, IL
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Bob Gaw, PRN, MA
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Alda Clemmey, Saffire Medical, MA
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Peter Stuart, Universal Hospital Services, Inc., MN
Bob Caples, Med-E-Quip Locators, MO
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Alison Fortin, Global Inventory Management LLC, NH
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
John Carrubba, A-1 Ultrasound Services, NJ
Victor Landeros, OMED, NV
Kevin Mullane, HR Medical, Inc., TX
DOTmed Certified
KEITH CASTELAMARE, B&K BIOMEDICAL SERVICES, VA
Janet Lessnau, Hyperbaric Clearinghouse, Inc, VA
Joseph Cramer, IV Technologies, Inc., VA
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Philip Mothena, Simple Solutions, Inc., VA
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