Cost is often cited as one of the barriers to a hospital’s adoption of IV workflow management systems (IV-WMS). But what if the technology actually saves money—to the tune of more than $500,000 annually?
That’s the savings accrued at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where Alex C. Lin, PhD, and his colleagues at the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati found that the adoption of IV-WMS reduced the amount of wasted and missing IV