Patient safety solutions

The mismatch between the patient and the drug to be administered remains a major cause of incidents in the western world.

The scope of HemoCod is in a first step to securely identify a sample from the patient. In the second step, the system will help to positively match the patient with the drug to be administered.

Furthermore the system allows for a complete and detailed traceability and monitoring of all drugs that leave the local hospital pharmacy or the blood bank. This traceability and monitoring capability, reaches up to the actual administration act at bedside.

The HemoCod system is based on a specific software suite, which links a database with mobile computer devices (PDA’s). While the PDA’s are deployed in the different hospital departments, they have access to the central software suite. At bedside any information related to the blood sample, the patient and the actual drug can be collected using the PDA’s. The method of data collection can be based on linear or 2D barcode, but also on RFID or Bluetooth. 

Scanning both, the patient and the assigned drug at bedside will provide a check for the compatibility.

The HemoCod system has proven to be an efficient tool to avoid unwanted transfusion reactions, due to patient and product mismatch. The system could as well be used to match any other sort of drug with the patient. Especially oncological patients receiving IV treatment could benefit from the advantages of the system.