CLEVELAND — OneDose has launched an electronic Medication Administration Cross-Check (eMACC), a medication safety tool designed specifically for EMS.
The technology digitizes the Medication Administration Cross-Check process into a single-provider workflow intended to help reduce medication errors while maintaining the pace of patient care, OneDose said in a press release.
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eMACC is designed to bring medication safety standards shown to cut medication errors by more than 40% into the field for EMS clinicians and other out-of-hospital providers, according to Dr. John Hill.
University Hospitals’ EMS Institute became involved early in development, participating in beta testing of the application.
“University Hospitals continues to lead the way in prehospital innovation,” OneDose Founder and Chief Executive Officer Tristen Hazlett said. “Collaborating directly with UH leadership has helped shape OneDose into a platform capable of supporting large-scale systems. The system-wide deployment of eMACC sets a new benchmark for medication safety across more than 300 EMS agencies.”
Each year, University Hospitals releases updated EMS protocols and medication changes in a 430-page PDF. Instead of revising and redistributing a master protocol document, UH now implements those updates in the OneDose app and pushes the changes directly to EMS providers.
