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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 17-271
Full Name: Alejandro Romero
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Male
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Country: CANADA
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E-mail address: alejandro.romero@polymtl.ca
Other E-mails: aromerotorres@gmail.com, elisabeth.lefebvre@polymtl.ca
Title of the Paper: Breaking the Barcode and RFID myth: Adoption paths for improving the medication process
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Alejandro Romero, Élisabeth Lefebvre, Louis-A. Lefebvre
Email addresses of all the authors: alejandro.romero@polymtl.ca, elisabeth.lefebvre@polymtl.ca, louis.a.lefebvre@polymtl.ca
Number of paper pages: 13
Abstract: The use of barcode has become a key primary technological strategy for improving healthcare service quality in general and point-of-care patient safety in particular. But will RFID eventually replace the widely adopted barcode technology for decreasing adverse medication events? This paper explores four different adoption paths for improving the medication process of an emergency department, namely full barcode implementation, full RFID implementation, migration and hybridization. Since medication errors are considered the most frequent type of adverse events occurring in hospitals, it appears rather crucial to gain a better understanding of the relative advantages and drawbacks related to each of these four adoption paths.
Keywords: Adverse medication events, RFID, barcode, technology adoption and medication process.
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Adoption paths for barcode and RFID technologies in the medication process: full implementation, hybridization or migration
Organizer of the Session: 303-288
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