GE Healthcare Driving down inventory with workflow redesign Communication backed by technology boosts infusion pump utilization In mid-2009, staff members of a 700-bed acute care facility knew their infusion pump handling process was broken. Despite 1,029 pumps in inventory for a typical patient census of 450, nurses reported pumps were available when needed just 36 percent of the time. Nurses had to wait for pumps ordered from Central Sterile

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