National Hospital Bags the Healthcare Asia Awards 2019 on Its e-UDD Patient Centered Innovation National Hospital Surabaya innovated the first Electronic Unit Daily Na Dose (e-UDD) system in Indonesia. This system was innovated by the hospital incollaboration with Medinfras (PT. Quantum Infra Solusindo). Hospital’s e-UDD system optimises patient medication schedule in order to deliver medication more safely and precisely to patients. The innovation aims to make the delivery of medication to patients in the wards more efficient and more safe utilizing a match barcodes for both medicine and patients. For by u this, National Hospital won the Healthcare Asia Awards 2019 for ICT Initiative of the Year on 23 May 2019 at the Conrad Singapore. The e-UDD system works by making it easier for nurses and pharmacists to prepare and administer medication to patients. Firstly, the system allows the pharmacist to prepare each patient's medication on time by seeing their medication schedule. It also allows the pharmacist to know if the medication has already been given by the nurse. On the part of the nurse, they scan two barcodes: one on the medication label and one on the patient. If there's a mismatch, the e-UDD system will issue a warning. the Prof. Hans Wijaya the CEO of National Hospital Surabaya and Hanny Cahyadi the head of the hospital pharmacy during the interview stated, “Our e-UDD system is one of our effort to give a patient-centered approach on our health services. As the first hospital who developed e-UDD in Indonesia, we hope we could become a national pride of health service partner.”
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