Congratulations to Estes Park Medical Center for completing their FY-2010 Small Hospital Improvement Program Quality Improvement Project! EPMC chose to purchase and implement a medication bar code/scanning system as their QI Project – leading to achievement of Electronic Health Record Meaningful Use. Through implementation of a medication bar code and scanning system, EPMC will increase patient safety and reduce medication errors. This project contributes to EPMC achieving three critical EHR Meaningful use objectives: Drug-Drug and Drug-Allergy Interaction Checks, Medication Reconciliation, and Drug-formulary Checks Watch for more SHIP project results in upcoming newsletters. 
Estes Park Medical Center Increases Patient Safety Through Bar Code/Scanning System Software
Congratulations to Estes Park Medical Center for completing their FY-2010 Small Hospital Improvement Program Quality Improvement Project! EPMC chose to purchase and implement a medication bar code/scanning system as their QI Project – leading to achievement of Electronic Health Record Meaningful Use. Through implementation of a medication bar code and scanning system, EPMC will increase patient safety and reduce medication errors. This project contributes to EPMC achieving three critical EHR Meaningful use objectives: Drug-Drug and Drug-Allergy Interaction Checks, Medication Reconciliation, and Drug-formulary Checks Watch for more SHIP project results in upcoming newsletters. 