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Examples of workarounds performed by nurses using BCMA are as follows: not scanning at all, scanning patient's barcodes remotely (i.e. not the actual wristbands of patients), ignoring signals or alerts or scanning of medication for multiple patients at the same time.

Results: The cost of implementing and operating BCMA including electronic pharmacy management and drug repackaging over 5 years is $40,000 (range: $35,600 to $54,600) per BCMA-enabled bed and $2000 (range: $1800 to $2600) per harmful error prevented.

Interventions such as raising awareness of the importance of this measure, securing leadership support, targeted individual staff education, and identifying and addressing barriers to scanning are tools that can be successfully implemented to in-crease compliance.

Leapfrog's BCMA standard provides hospitals with a "how-to guide" on what best practice looks like for using BCMA to ensure safe medication administration at the bedside.

The cost of implementing and operating BCMA is one major hurdle for some hospitals. A study by Sakowski and Ketchel estimated the cost of implementing and operating BCMA including electronic pharmacy management and drug repackaging over five years to be $35,600 to $54,600 per BCMA-enabled bed.

While BCMA implementation costs approximately $2,000 per harmful medication error averted, this is less expensive than the estimated $3,100-$7,400 cost of a harmful error.

BCMA systems reduce medication errors by electronically verifying the '5 rights' of medication administration—right patient, right dose, right drug, right time, right route—at the patient's bedside.

Leapfrog's BCMA standard provides hospitals with a "how-to guide" on what best practice looks like for using BCMA to ensure safe medication administration at the bedside.

The report – based on the 2017 Leapfrog Hospital Survey and analyzed by Castlight Health – found that among the nearly 2,000 reporting hospitals, almost all (98.7 percent) have a BCMA system connected to an electronic medication administration record, yet only 34.5 percent fully meet all four requirements for deploying ...