Electronic Medical Records

Reducing Medication Errors with eMAR

While you are a patient at Sky Ridge Medical Center, you receive your medications through an Electronic Medication Administration Record known as eMAR. Hospitals that use eMAR have successfully reduced medication errors by 88%.

Your nurse scans each of your medications — similar to the scanning process at the grocery store — as well as your identification band. This ensures that we have the:

• Right patient
• Right medication
• Right dose
• Right route
• Right time
• Right allergy identification