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Intelligent Tools for Reducing Medication Dispensing and Administration Error

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This paper presents an overview of smart medication dispensing and administration devices and software tools designed to minimize dispensing and administration errors. Some of them are for users who take medications on a long term basis without close professional supervision; others are for pharmacy and nursing staffs in hospitals, long term care, and assisted living facilities. These tools should be configurable, customizable, easy to use and effective for diverse users and care-providing institutions. The paper describes approaches taken to meet these objectives.

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  1. Inst. of Manufacturing Info. and Sys., National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Pei-Hsuan Tsai

  2. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jane W. S. Liu

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Tsai, PH., Liu, J.W.S. (2014). Intelligent Tools for Reducing Medication Dispensing and Administration Error. In: Gibbons, J., MacCaull, W. (eds) Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems. FHIES 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53956-5_1

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