Enhanced Patient ID System for Specimens

A specimen-management system for laboratories improves hospital operational efficiency and enhances patient safety by reducing the potential for medical errors during the specimen-management process.

Called the BD.id Patient Identification System, the system is designed to ensure that medical specimens are collected from the right patients at the right time, placed into the right specimen container, subjected to the right tests, and that test results are linked back to the right patient. The system was developed by Becton, Dickinson & Company (BD, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA).

Version 6.0 of the BD.id system combines proven functionality with new product improvements, including embedded analytics with enhanced reporting capabilities. Designed with hospital management in mind, the BD.id easily generates error prevention logs, materials management data, and phlebotomy statistics. The reports are comprehensive enough to produce meaningful trend analyses, yet specific enough to pinpoint inappropriate container use, system workarounds, and staff retraining needs. This specificity can reduce institutional costs associated with medical mistakes by helping to eliminate needless and expensive blood redraws, inappropriate prescriptions, and even unnecessary surgeries. Hospitals that have used the system have experienced nearly a 100% decrease in specimen-management errors, the company states.

"BD's own commitment to process improvement underlies the design of the BD.id system, resulting in a tool that facilitates system-wide error reduction in hospitals,” remarked Edward J. Ludwig, chairman, president, and CEO of BD.




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