DocuSys, Inc. Releases New Version of Drug Monitoring Device for the Operating Room Setting
Posted on: Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 12:00 CDT
MOBILE, Ala., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuSys, Inc., a leading provider of Anesthesia Information Systems (AIS) and Digital Drug Management Systems, today announced the release of its second generation DocuJect(R), a point-of- care safety device for monitoring drug deliveries in the Operating Room environment.
The announcement comes on the heels of the release of a widely publicized new study by the United States Pharmacopeia revealing that 5% of perioperative errors result in harm and that drug dose (particularly in pediatric patients) and communication errors were common causes of these errors. The study found that surgery patients are three times more likely to experience a harmful medication error than patients anywhere else in the health care system, prompting the following comment from one of the study's authors, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, who is familiar with the DocuJect product. "Among other strategies, technologies like DocuJect that automate drug delivery hold promise to reduce these harmful events."
DocuJect combines digital imaging and bar code scanning technologies to enable instant interaction with patient and drug databases to provide alerts to the clinician before an impending adverse drug reaction or medication error can occur. The device also automates documentation of drug delivery in real- time. Installation of DocuJect II in DocuSys hospitals will begin in April.
About Dr. Pronovost
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD is medical director of the Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and serves as a member of the Advisory Board for DocuSys.
About DocuSys
DocuSys is the first company to provide comprehensive digitization of anesthesia by merging two of the most critical components of patient care-drug delivery and clinical information - maximizing both the quality of care and return on investment in surgery. The system incorporates customizable decision support, professional fee capture, comorbid condition documentation and an intravenous drug monitor, DocuJect(R), which uses bar-coding and digital imaging to automate documentation, tracking and billing of drugs. DocuSys' modular design permits integration with existing HIS (Hospital Information Systems), electronic drug dispensing cabinets, infusion pumps, physiologic monitors and other systems in those settings where IV drug delivery is key. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.docusys.net/ .
DocuSys, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer Dixon of DocuSys, Inc., +1-251-461-9903, Ext. 107,jdixon@docusys.net
Web site: http://www.docusys.net/
Source: PRNewswire
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