Smart Pump–EHR Interoperability: Big Promise, Thin Evidence to Date

By Marcus A. BanksConnecting smart infusion pumps directly to the electronic health record (EHR) has the potential to reduce medication errors, streamline nursing workflow, and improve charge capture, but the evidence supporting these gains is still immature, according to a recent systematic review (Intensive Crit Care Nurs 2026;97:104475).Interoperability allows a verified EHR order to auto-program the infusion pump and pump to auto-document the infusion back into the record, reducing manual ke