Patient Care

Empower your healthcare workers to improve the quality of patient care…with mobility

In the critical world of healthcare, workers who are tied to paper-and-pen based processes are forced to spend time on administrative tasks that could be better spent caring for patients. In addition, the manual paper-based collection of data leaves too much room for error - an event that can have devastating consequences.

With a Motorola and Zebra mobility solution, your healthcare workers have the tools they need to drive inefficiencies and errors out of everyday processes. Streamlining of processes starts in admissions, where a Zebra thermal printer enables the creation of accurate, legible, and durable bar coded patient identification wristbands. At patient bedside, with a Motorola mobile computer in hand, a quick scan of the bar code on the wristband and the medication ensures that the right patient is about to receive the right medication, the right dose by the right route, at the right time, preventing errors in medication administration - a growing problem causing sickness, injury or death to at least 1.5 million patients in the U.S. alone¹.

With a Motorola mobile computer and Zebra mobile printer in hand, specimens can be labeled at the patient's bedside, preventing costly mix-ups that could result in an erroneous diagnosis that at best can result in the cost to repeat the test, and at worst a faulty course of treatment that could put the patient at risk. The ability to place a bar code label on supplies enables healthcare workers to scan items as they are removed, providing the real-time inventory required to ensure prompt restocking of supply cabinets. And finally, this mobility solution enables real-time tracing of critical medical records. A Zebra mobile printer allows workers to easily print and place a bar code label on charts, test results, medical records and more. Similar to a library, healthcare workers can scan the bar code label along with the bar code on their own ID badge, automatically and accurately recording the identity of the worker in possession of the paperwork.

Efficiency is improved, providing your healthcare workers with the one thing they need to deliver higher quality patient care - more time. Healthcare workers are no longer saddled with paperwork and the need to shuttle back and forth from patient bedside to a desk to look up and retrieve information. And the ability to double and triple check medication orders before the medication is administered, as well as ensuring accurate marking of specimen containers, reducing errors.

The result? Patient care and safety is improved - and the potential risk and liability for the healthcare organization is reduced.

¹ Institute of Medicine, Report Brief July 2006, Preventing Medication