HP Expands Healthcare Edition Portfolio

HP announced that it has expanded healthcare portfolio. The HP Healthcare Edition print portfolio improves patient safety, enables clinical efficiency and secures patient data and medical records.

“More than any other industry, healthcare solutions that address global challenges have the power to improve the lives of people all around the world,“ said Tuan Tran, Incoming President, Imaging, Printing and Solutions, HP. “Our new innovations are designed to address the most pressing issues facing the healthcare industry today including patient safety, care coordination, clinical efficiency and security. Through deep customer insights and collaboration with healthcare associations and partners, we’re reinventing what’s possible in healthcare.“

HP’s new innovations assist with three critical areas of patient safety: Health-care associated infections, electromagnetic interference and patient identification. The CDC estimates that hospitals are responsible for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 associated deaths each year. Electronic devices, which are critical in successful patient treatment, are common areas for pathogenic bacteria contamination. Improving sanitization procedures is not enough to combat the problem since many technology touch points are easily and quickly damaged by germicidal wipes.

To help address this issue, HP’s new Healthcare Edition MFP keyboards and touch-enabled control panels are designed to be sanitized regularly, withstanding up to 10,000X industry-standard germicidal wipes, helping to reduce the risk of health-care associated infection transmission. In addition, HP introduced EN/IEC 60601-1-2 certified Healthcare Edition printers for EMI safety. This certification ensures these devices can be used within the patient sphere without risk of electromagnetic interference to sensitive patients and surrounding medical equipment.

HP is also collaborating with Zebra to help provide patients with the right care at the right time. By integrating Zebra into Healthcare Edition print portfolio, clinicians can now print integrated patient ID wristbands, thus increasing patient identification accuracy. In addition, through HP’s global Managed Print Services program with Zebra, care providers can also print trackable labels on-demand via RFID. For secure prescription printing technology, HP solutions with Troy software track a prescription’s validity, reducing prescription inaccuracies, as well as controlled substance prescription abuse.

Healthcare Edition MFPs also include the Biscom for Healthcare app, which is completely integrated with EPIC and Cerner. This enables the entire clinical team to digitally transmit and receive patient information or directly input data into the EMR system right from an app on the printer. As a result, care providers can make timely critical decisions to improve the experience of patients and the entire care team. The HP Healthcare Edition Print Products and Solutions are planned to be available Spring 2020 to customers in the United States and Canada.