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As the 55th hospital to go live with IntelliDOT BMA, Hiawatha Community Hospital, a critical access hospital in Hiawatha, KS, has already seen improvements in patient safety. One key benefit is the IntelliDOT System's ability to provide 24-hour drug interaction checking, even when the pharmacy is closed.

"Hiawatha is excited to be a part of IntelliDOT's success," said John Moore, CEO. "We realized that there were holes in our systems that IntelliDOT's barcoding solution could plug. Now I can go back to the community and say we're doing everything we can do technically to make this a safe hospital."

The IntelliDOT System's intuitive workflow works with nurses instead of against them. The system is designed to prevent workarounds, helping clients achieve 95 percent or higher user compliance rates, based on actual usage data. IntelliDOT clients use the IntelliDOT System successfully to administer more than 2 million medications each month.

Client success in eliminating serious five rights-related medication errors has been documented in statistically significant observation studies completed in cooperation with clients at 10 sites, involving nearly 2,400 medication administrations. Serious errors were defined to be the administration of the wrong medication,
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