Everything was clipboards and paper and charts, and it was so easy to lose information.
Patients would get the wrong food or medications, and it was more paperwork for us.
We switched to iPads, and the errors decreased a lot.
Putting barcodes on wristbands made it even easier to track patients and their needs.
We tried giving them a pill with an RFID tag in it so they’d automatically sync up with our pads, but the metal was enough to cause problems in the MRI machine.
The pill would come out like a bullet.
And those MRI machines are expensive.