Chronically ill patients taking several drugs each day may not need to worry about medication errors anymore, thanks to Larry Shusterman. A physician and former pharmacist, Shusterman developed a way ...
The SafetyMed bedside point-of-care solution is accessed through a secure web browser via a hospital's existing wireless network, and is designed to verify medication and patient accuracy prior to ...
Bar coding: Clinical pharmacy information systems, clinical drug therapy, computer-assisted/*methods, hospital information systems, information systems, medication errors/ prevention and control, ...
Coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric ...
This article was originally featured on Kaiser Health News. More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the ...
Purpose: Processes that pharmacists can use to identify high-risk areas and drugs that require special focus in error-prevention efforts are discussed, with emphasis ...
Corrections departments are responsible for so many burdensome tasks that many of their everyday functions, like administering prescription drugs to inmates, are afterthoughts for the public. However, ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicell, Inc., (Nasdaq: OMCL) a leading provider of medication management systems to acute healthcare facilities, today announced Deaconess Health ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers have found that a new computer system that uses bar codes to safeguard patients' medications will work successfully, but not without creating new, serious problems for ...
The "Medication Adherence: Systems, Technologies and Global Markets" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. Pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare providers are turning to ...
Factors as such are anticipated to support the growing use of medication dispenser in ambulatory surgical centers, hospitals and nursing homes. Moreover, the need to eliminate manual task of ...