Electronic Medical Records at Sky Ridge
While you are a patient at Sky Ridge Medical Center, you receive your medications through an Electronic Medication Administration Record known as eMAR. Hospitals that use eMAR have successfully reduced medication errors by 88%.
Your nurse scans each of your medications — similar to the scanning process at the grocery store — as well as your identification band. This ensures that we have the:
- Right Patient
- Right Medication
- Right Dose
- Right Route
- Right Time
- Right Allergy Identification