The announcement comes after months of testing with McKesson's Horizon Clinicals applications, configuration and firmware enhancements, and special arrangements with Motion Computing for unique product, training and support bundles. Developed by Intel Corp. and Motion Computing in collaboration with thousands of clinicians as well as companies like McKesson, the C5 has now proven in multiple implementations to enhance the benefits of information technology for clinicians, and ultimately for patients.
The C5 is a lightweight tablet that integrates durable design elements with point-of-care data and image capture technologies to help physicians, nurses and other clinicians do their job on the move. Recognizing that a mobile platform helps break down barriers some clinical systems impose between caregivers and their patients, McKesson engaged early with Motion Computing and Intel to ensure it could obtain the full benefit of this new technology for its customers. These efforts led to application enhancements specifically for the C5 to ensure effective bar-coding and connection with hospital wireless networks, as well as certification of McKesson's HorizonWP Physician Portal, which clinicians log into more than four million times each month.
McKesson also worked closely with The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, S.C., to ensure full functionality of the solution and to support MUSC's efforts to study the impact of mobility on patient care. "We were excited about the opportunity to collaborate with McKesson, Intel and Motion on an integrated software and hardware solution designed specifically to address the complexity and fragmentation of clinician workflow," said Marilyn Schaffner, Ph.D., R.N., C.G.R.N., chief nursing officer at MUSC. "In our initial pilot of McKesson's clinical documentation and bar-code medication administration solutions with the C5, we saw an 18 percent improvement in patient vital sign charting accuracy along with a significant reduction in charting delays."
McKesson has certified its major Horizon Clinicals applications on the C5. An estimated two million clinicians - including more than 400,000 registered nurses - rely upon these applications to deliver safe, efficient care. Of particular interest to McKesson and its customers is the C5's integrated bar-code scanning capability, which helps drive compliance with bar-code medication administration guidelines to ensure the highest levels of patient safety. Today, McKesson's Horizon Admin-Rx bar-code medication administration solution prevents more than 500,000 medication errors weekly. When combined with the C5 technology that increases caregiver time at the bedside, this provides nurses with a tool to drive improvements in patient care.
"McKesson introduced the first point-of-care bar-coding device in the late eighties, and today we have more hospitals bar coding than any other IT provider," said Merrie Wallace, R.N., M.N., vice president and solution line manager for McKesson Provider Technologies. "With our adoption track record and our continued R&D emphasis in the area of mobile clinician workflow, we were approached by Intel and Motion to collaborate on what became a category of devices designed with and for clinicians. The effort was in synch with our goal of giving clinicians more time with patients, and studies are now showing that hospitals using the C5 are realizing measurable improvements in safety, efficiency and clinician satisfaction."
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