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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our constant quest to elevate patient safety and outcomes, we recognized there are tools available to help us work smarter, not necessarily harder, to achieve more successes.\u00a0 In my organization, we rolled out a product last year and we’re still working on the process.\u00a0 This is where we need your help.<\/p>\n
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Below is a diagram from the vendor’s website of how their product is designed to function.\u00a0 As you can see, even when the technology functions with 100% reliability, it still requires human intervention.\u00a0 In our case, we want the alerts firing at multiple levels across the organization.\u00a0 We need someone closest to the fridge to make a human assessment and execute the appropriate change to resolve the matter.\u00a0 We have Pharmacy leaders at a higher level that monitor all 85+ devices across the region to ensure timely action by all.\u00a0 Some of the challenges occur after hours when we’re relying on front-line staff to receive the alert at home and the Pharmacy leader to receive every alert, all of the time.\u00a0 There are also alerts firing for “signal not found” which could mean anything from the power is out completely to the Wi-Fi wasn’t detected for a moment.\u00a0 These scenarios create a regular occurrence of false alarms and thus alarm fatigue.<\/p>\n
How should we align our resources, processes and tools to effectively manage the automation we’ve implemented with the expectation of simplifying it all?\u00a0 We have not found that to be the case, and still have excursions of significant amounts due to extenuating circumstances.<\/p>\n
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Temperature monitoring of refrigerators, freezers, and warmers is vital to ensure patient safety, as well as to remain compliant with medication management standards and reduce potentially costly product loss. As our region continues to grow it’s geographic footprint and square footage, the complexity of temperature management for our medication fridges\/freezers also multiplies. Technology can aid in awareness, but it still doesn’t create a perfect system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-573","hck-submission","type-hck-submission","status-publish","hentry","hck-taxonomy-country-united-states"],"connected_submission_link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-mhcdsolutions\/conversation\/mhcd-solutions\/","yoast_head":"\n