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Quick, accurate and dependable methods to verify patient ID are integral to the hospital setting. Hospital error costs the medical industry billions of dollars annually. About 98,000 deaths occur because of misidentification mistakes.1 OKI Printing Solutions provides methodologies that can reduce medication errors by up to 85%2 and offers a single source for comprehensive solutions that include both thermal barcode and digital printers.

ADMISSION SOLUTIONS
High-resolution OKI Printing Solutions thermal label and/or digital printers—strengthened by translation technology from our partner,DataRay, Inc.—are designed to produce reliable accurate labels and wristbands using the data streams from most Hospital Information Systems without modification.

PHARMACY SOLUTIONS
OKI Printing Solutions’ thermal label printers and digital printers combined with DataRay software enhances the layout of prescription labels for better readability, enabling use of scalable fonts and clear, data-filled graphics–including 1D and 2D barcodes.

One of the most common causes of medication errors comes from confusing drug names that are spelled similar to one another. Our Tall Man Lettering (TML) solution reduces reading errors by making similar drug names easily distinguishable. This prevents pharmacies from filling a prescription incorrectly and delivering the wrong, possibly harmful medication to the patient, using TML as a safety precaution.

ADMINISTRATIVE SOLUTIONS
OKI Printing Solutions' printers and DataRay technology can produce accurate, scannable barcode labels, wristbands and records that enhance patient safety where it matters most: in the bedside administration of medication.

With OKI Printing Solutions you can:

For more information, click here to contact an OKI Healthcare Industry Consultant and see how OKI can help you enhance patient safety.

1 Institute of Medicine Report: by Dr. Mark Chassin & Dr. Lucian Leape of Harvard.
2 US Department of Health and Human Services.