Centice Corporation Releases Update for the PINPOINT Rx™ Drug Identification ...
Morrisville, N.C. (PRWEB) June 09, 2011
Centice Corporation, a pioneer in chemical verification and identification using Raman spectroscopy and computational sensor technology, announced today the release of a new update for PINPOINT Rx™, a low cost device for identifying prescription medications in hospital emergency rooms and patient admission areas.
PINPOINT Rx™ chemically identifies in 10 seconds unknown prescription drugs in oral solid form, as they are introduced into emergency rooms. The analysis and extensive documentation of each pill scan, including date and time, and pill image, is captured and electronically communicated. PINPOINT Rx™ uses Raman spectroscopy, vision and a built in Medi-Span® database to perform the identification.
The PINPOINT Rx™ update contains two new features, a Search Database operation mode, as well as a print feature.
Search Database mode allows users to search Centice's proprietary library and built in database for prescription drugs based on imprints. A new virtual keyboard, built into the existing touch screen, allows users to easily search for the identification of an unknown prescription drug by imprint or markings. The new print feature allows users to print the identification result information for record keeping or for admittance in a patient chart. After the unknown prescription drug has been identified, the print option will appear and users can enter comments, such as, patient name, identification number, or other important information before printing.
"We are very excited about our continuing efforts to provide a unique solution for emergency room medication reconciliation with PINPOINT Rx™," said Centice CEO Scott Albert. "These new features should allow medical practitioners to more easily and quickly determine the identification of unknown prescription drugs or pills, and then easily print or store the information."
Centice recently conducted a market research survey with hospital emergency room and pharmacy personnel about the drug identification process within their hospitals. The results from the market research survey show that over 60% of unknown pills are sent to the pharmacy for identification and it can take hours for the physician and nurses to obtain those results.
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Medication reconciliation brings the ER back to 1960
By Chris Rangel, MD
What a blessing and a curse it must have been to practice medicine fifty years ago.
Most internists had only about twenty or so medications that they used regularly. It was a curse not to have effective medications to treat many common ailments but somewhat of a blessing not to have the modern medical nightmare of having patients on 15-20 chronic medications with all the logistical problems of keeping track of them all and watching for any interactions and complications. The use of electronic medical records is helping more and more medical practices keep track of their patient’s medications.
Unfortunately, far too many emergency room departments believe that it is still 1960 when it comes to patient medications. And it used to be worse.
The accurate and consistent documentation of medications for patients admitted to the ER and the hospital was unregulated and of low priority until early the last decade when the Joint Commission for Hospital Accreditation starting requiring all member hospitals to keep track of their patient’s home medications and to reconcile these lists while in the hospital and on discharge. As of 2007, only 66% of hospitals actually documented a patient’s home medications though this seems to have improved. But from personal experience, the effort is often substandard.
The documentation forms for medication reconciliation are often confusing and poorly designed. Sometimes there are 2 or more lists which often contradict each other. Medications are frequently misspelled and dosages given in the wrong units or route. Yet, the single worst aspect is that these reconciliation lists are often jaw droppingly inaccurate to the point of being mostly fictional and this is despite the fact that this information is acquired by licensed medical professionals (mostly nurses and physicians).
The inaccuracy of this documentation appears to be a combination of two factors. 1. The medical staff appear to put forth much more of an effort to acquire a list (any list) than in maximizing the accuracy of such a list and 2. Many patients and their families have a very difficult time keeping track of their own medications.
The second problem is a universal headache for most health care workers. Patients either forget their medications or bring outdated lists or only some of their medications and family members are too infrequently involved in the patient’s medical care to help give information or the one member who knows the most is never available. These are considerable problems but short of a national electronic database to keep an accurate record of each patient’s medication list in real time (more on this in a future post) there is not much that can be done on the patient side. Yet, many patterns and common pitfalls can be seen and dealt with to significantly improve the accuracy of this information.
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