BD Cato™ ReadyMed

The BD Cato™ ReadyMed mobile application:

• Is a simple and intuitive barcoded medication administration documentation, checking and tracking solution that ensures safe medication is given to the right patient
• Ensures Five Rights of Medication Administration:
  • The right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right time, and the right documentation
  • Allows each hospital to achieve a HIMSS Europe level six adoption and utilization of EMR functions required to achieve a paperless environment³
• Offers a patient-specific administration check:
  • Medication and patient workload
  • Overview for each nurse
  • Tailored to each nurse’s workload for the day

The administration of IV chemotherapy is critical and can lead to significant patient harm: 60% of medication errors are related to administration/supply, and the error rate for IVs is double that of oral medications.¹

• The standard medication administration process is long and complex, with at least eight steps before administration.
• It requires a second nurse check that is distracting for the second nurse and causes delays.
• Look-alike, sound-alike medication contributes to 33% of errors^1,2. Most chemotherapies are colourless liquids in similar bags.
• Other contributory factors to medication administration errors include high workload/low staffing (23%)¹.