Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Hackensack University Medical Center has deployed Thomson Reuters NeoFax Online to provide physicians, nurses, and pharmacy staff in its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with electronic, evidence-based drug information. Hackensack University Medical Center is a 775-bed academic medical center serving northern New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area.
NeoFax Online delivers neonatal reference information. It enables clinicians to check on potential drug interactions, delivers, and provides dosing calculations that account for infants' ever-changing weight. The electronic version of NeoFax was deployed by the hospital to reduce the chance of medication errors.
The NICU's new workflow eliminates several steps that can lead to medication errors and NeoFax Online assists with the hospital's ongoing infection control initiative. Books are difficult to clean and can carry and transfer infections. Removing contact with a book during the administration of medication eliminates this potential source of infection within the NICU.
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