Marienhospital Gelsenkirchen – part of the St. Augustinus Gelsenkirchen network – is taking a major step toward digitization and patient safety and is now relying on Mesalvo solutions in surgery (a total of 40 beds): "Meona Advanced Medication" and "The Digital Curve." Clinical documentation and the individual treatment progress of patients can be interactively managed with the software solution, and thanks to the user-friendly interface, all doctors, pharmacists, and specialist nursing staff always maintain a perfect overview. Lengthy searches or laborious deciphering of handwriting are now a thing of the past at the largest hospital in the city of Gelsenkirchen.
The advantage: Medication errors and thus avoidable risks for patients are reduced during drug therapy. With the Meona clinical software, all important patient data – whether vital signs, medication, or ward examinations – are digitally recorded in the shortest time and reliably provide the required information at the right time in the right place. Staff in the OR particularly benefit, as they can access ward patient data directly from the operating room.
The surgery department launched the IT solutions from Mesalvo as a pilot project. In the future, the "Meona Advanced Medication" and "The Digital Curve" solutions will be rolled out across all four locations of St. Augustinus Gelsenkirchen GmbH.
The goal: To be able to access modules from all locations, improve workflows, and promote digital communication between sites. With the replacement of the paper chart and a strong focus on medication safety and automated drug delivery, the Marienhospital, with its innovative approach, is one of the most advanced clinics in Germany, placing a strong emphasis on comprehensive patient safety – far from more error-prone paper-based patient charts.
By the end of the year, all wards are to be equipped with state-of-the-art technology for medication supply, laying the foundation for the introduction of unit-dose dispensers on the wards. The Meona clinical software provides drug therapy safety and supports all drug processes from manufacturing to the patient. Unit dose and multi-dose solutions are fully supported by Meona and directly address all common dispensing systems – where possible, even bidirectionally. Package-based picking systems can also be addressed directly.
In the next project phase, the unit dose systems will be connected to the Meona solution via a corresponding interface. With unit dose, the correct medications are compiled directly on the ward for each patient and at the correct time. This automated medication distribution replaces the manual, error-prone preparation process on the ward, increases patient safety through error reduction via the software’s validation mechanisms, and saves valuable time for nursing staff.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of all project participants and the entire team, the go-live could begin real operations after a remarkably short project duration of only six months. Through parallel training during the go-live days, all new patients were managed with the Meona clinical software from day one. Throughout the project, there was a trusting, cooperative, and constructive collaboration on equal footing – always with the goal of creating the highest possible level of safety for patients.
