Case Study As a matter of fact, the issue became so important that board members decided to give the medication and lab safety initiative precedence over other planned projects. “We’ve always placed a high value on improving patient safety, so it came as no surprise when our governing board decided to prioritize the deployment of bar- code medication administration ahead of other projects and applications,” says Suzanne DeWoody, MS, RN, vice president, Systems Integration. OhioHealth had already successfully implemented many McKesson technologies, so the decision to extend the partnership into the patient safety realm was a given, DeWoody notes. The challenge, however, was in the scope and high-reaching objectives of the medication and lab safety project. “The scale

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