Intellidot

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We are going to start using the Intellidot system at the hospital I work in. I was just wondering if anybody is currently using it and what their opinion of it is.

Specializes in Oncology, LTC, Home Health & M/S.
As a traveler I have worked with several electronic MARs, scanning systems etc., and I must say that Intellidot is the most cumbersome, time consuming eMAR I have worked with. It was also the system most prone to causing medication errors. If you click on the wrong dot or accidentally click the CARET at the wrong time it is a pain to correct it. I counted the steps from the time of scanning the patient's band to the time of actually giving the patient the medication and stopped counting at 18! Intellidot seems to be intentionally designed to remove nurses from the bedside and actual patient care and make the job more difficult and stressful.

What other eMARs have you used and which system would you say is the best?

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Specializes in Med/Surg; Psych; Tele.

A bit off the subject here, but I wish they would have computer systems where the MD has to enter in their orders electronically. That way, no problems with handwriting or need for clarifications (i.e. would not let the MD proceed without all proper elements - dosage, frequency, etc. - saving another phone call for nurses). And the process of processing orders would be even faster.

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Intellidot is the most annoying, time consuming, frustrating system! I end up charting my meds on the computer when I get really pissed!

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Specializes in Critical care, trauma, cardiac, neuro.

Many of the dots won't scan. Fellow nurses say they just scan any injection location or any reason theat will take the scan. So, the caret promotes false charting - just for time constraint reasons. Sounds like an PI attorney's dream to me!

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Intellidot is the most annoying, time consuming, frustrating system!

ditto

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Specializes in Home Health.

It saddens me to hear all the negative things with Intellidot. We are getting this system at the hospital where I work in the next month or so. I am probably going to work at this hospital for YEARS still and on our busy med-surg unit, we don't need one more thing to slow us down. :icon_roll

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Specializes in Critical care, trauma, cardiac, neuro.

We joke it is a good thing that the hospital has hurricane-proof (unbreakable)windows because one frequently hears, "I'm going to throw this (expletive) thing right out the window!"

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I dont know one single person that actually LIKES the Intellidot... and if you ask me, its setting us up for more error than ever.. The worksheets are a horrible system to depend on. (They get thrown out after 24 hours) Things are always getting missed and nobody is held accountable.. :down:

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I use intellidot. It's alright. but backward system!!!!i have worked with better system where u scan patients and medication.

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We now have e prescribing and admistrion of meds and Althouh we have I'd bands with

bar codes we don't scanmeds.

I like being able to ring a on call doctor get a med ordred and it appears on the screen

great 4 pt on warfrin without a dose px, no to vo orders allowed at my work.

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