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* Please Note: This session has been pre-recorded, there will not be an opportunity for the audience to interact directly with the speaker during the session, however CLMA staff will be happy to forward questions to the speaker. Please send questions and/or comments to Angela Agostini at aagostini@clma.org.
Tuesday, October 28| 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM, ET
Labeling blood and other samples at the time they are collected improves patient safety and helps prevent a host of problems related to misidentification. It’s estimated that each year 169,000 adverse events result from sample identification errors.
A strong and growing body of evidence within medical literature supports the idea that creating specimen-identification labels on demand at the patient’s bedside can reduce errors. In addition, one of The Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals for 2008 states that health-care staff members use two patient specific identifiers when taking blood or other samples from a patient and label the specimen collection container in the presence of the patient.
This pre-recorded session will explain the processes involved in point-of-care specimen labeling, summarize their benefits, and outline technical requirements for bar coding at the bedside. In this session, the speaker will review several case studies based on real-world implementations, and explore the challenges and lessons learned from each.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Develop an effective point-of-care strategy for sample labeling and tracking.
- Understand how automated specimen collection differs from a manual workflow.
- Recognize the best practices for labeling barcodes during bedside-specimen collection.
Session Fees: Member: $290 Non-Member: $400
Presenter
Cristina De Martini
With more than 10 years of experience in the healthcare information technology field, Cristina De Martini serves as global practice leader, healthcare at Zebra Technologies. In this role, she is responsible for the global development of Zebra’s healthcare market strategy, which includes the acute care, sub acute care, and long term care segments—focusing on bedside medication delivery, point of care specimen labeling, and pharmacy and laboratory departmental printing in hospital and healthcare delivery systems. During her tenure at Zebra, Ms. De Martini developed an alliance program for healthcare information technology vendors that resulted in the increased demand for Zebra’s suite of thermal print solutions and contributed approximately $9 million in healthcare revenue annually. A noted industry thought leader, she is a member of the HIMSS Auto ID Task Force and a frequent presenter at industry events. Previously, Ms. De Martini held several positions at McKesson Corporation, where she played an active role in developing and implementing business process improvement projects for product management, product marketing, and product development using Six Sigma and Service Operations-Maturity Model training. She also negotiated and managed strategic business partnerships and assisted with the development and implementation of third-party marketing plans. Ms. De Martini received a bachelor’s degree in communications and an MBA from the University of Georgia.
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1.5 Credit Hours
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