Crazy as it may sound, more than a few of those things were happening already when I graduated in 1997. One "nearly paperless" hospital I worked at did the bulk of their charting electronically, pulled their daily meds out of a Pyxis machine, recorded them on daily computer-generated MARS.
It's not quite everything you could ask for, but it's a far cry from most hospitals where almost everything is done manually. Things move very slowly in healthcare as far as innovations. Give it another 50 years and they'll catch up (sigh).
Andrew Lopez, RN
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