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With patient safety at the forefront of health care today, industry eyes are on BWH as a leader and example of how to apply technology to make direct patient care safer and more efficient.
Last month, Bill Churchill, MS, RPh, director of Pharmacy Services, and Anne Bane, MSN, RN, interim program manager for Nursing Practice, shared with other hospitals how to do just that at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in San Diego. HIMSS, which frames and leads public policy and industry practice in health care information technology and management systems, accepts limited submissions-making Churchill and Bane's presentation an honor.
Bane presented to a standing room only crowd, detailing BWH's implementation process, its lessons learned and the next steps it will take to improve patient safety.
This presentation is one of many where Bane and Churchill have shared BWH's success story. Since last fall, Churchill has spoken in Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas and other cities. This spring, he and Bane take their presentations to Washington, D.C., New York and Geneva.
Many hospitals and health care organizations are looking to BWH as an example because few large hospitals in the country have an electronic medication administration system from front to back. "People always tell me at these conferences, 'You folks got it right,' " Churchill said.