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1. 1. North Carolina Baptist Hospital Prepares to Implement IDX(R) Carecast(TM) Wireless Barcode Medication Charting

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   Published on: 2/10/2005   Last Visited: 2/10/2005

   "Wireless medication barcoding gives our clinicians an important tool to fulfill the hospital's mission of making a difference in the quality of care our patients receive," said Mary Ann Anderson, Director of Nursing, Clinical Systems, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

2. 2. IDX - IDXchange 2004 Vol. 3

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   Published on: 5/6/2004   Last Visited: 4/4/2006

   "As a Magnet hospital, North Carolina Baptist Hospital is committed to the highest quality nursing care and the professional empowerment of our nurses," said Mary Ann Anderson, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing, Clinical Systems, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

3. 3. Health Data Management

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   Published on: 9/1/2004   Last Visited: 9/1/2004

   "Nursing workflow can be plotted out, but it never follows the plot when nurses actually are doing their jobs," says Mary Ann Anderson, R.N., director of nursing information systems at North Carolina Baptist Hospital of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C. "A patient feels fine one minute, then is in real pain right after a nurse goes away to treat someone else.
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   While software and hardware have improved, nurses' documentation requirements have grown, says Anderson of North Carolina Baptist. "Regulatory agencies, as well as internal risk management departments, are requiring more documentation."
   
   This makes a nurse's job more complex because while there are more regulatory demands for increased documentation, the role of nurses has for the most part stayed the same. They're asked to constantly juggle direct patient care and documentation requirements.
   
   "Nursing is a hands-on job-we are touching the patient while holding onto thermometers and IVs, among other devices," Anderson explains.
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   But the technology was "not quite there," Anderson says.
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   But the provider organization feels that the development of "interactive" intelligence is crucial to nursing I.T., Anderson says.