Surveillance of medication errors is encouraged to identify gaps in the healthcare system and work on them. This study aimed to compare medication errors in outpatient prescriptions in two hospitals in Jordan: one with a paper-based and one with an electronic prescription system. METHODS. This ...
Laboratory information system (LIS) Medical history for all children Medication allergy list Medication history Medication list Medication route No Known Allergies (nka) Objective Order catalog Order Entry (OE) Ordering provider Parts of order
Pillo, which is HIPAA-compliant and registered as an FDA Class 1 medical device, is already attracting attention in the healthcare community. The company received funding from Hackensack Meridian Health System’s Innovation Center fund, focused on helping the startup commercialize and go-to-...
MedicationAdministration Describes the event of a patient consuming or otherwise being administered a medication. MedicationAdministrationDefinition A protocol, guideline, order set or other definition that was adhered to in whole or in part by this event. Me...
Truveta Data includes more than 7 billion procedures, 5 billion encounters, nearly 8 billion medication dispenses, and 28 million medical device uses for a population that largely aligns with the representativeness of...
The Southwest Telehealth Resource Center (SWTRC) dispenses onsite telemedicine training at the Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC). This urban facility then offers telemedicine service to its patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). FMC happens to be the only level 1 trauma center north of...
In addition to harming patients, medication errors under- mine patients' confidence in the healthcare system, extend hospital length of stay and are costly [7–9]. Internationally, sustained efforts endeavour to reduce medication error rates [10]. One common approach has been the implementation of...
OBJECTIVE: Often we call the patient's pharmacy to obtain a refill history to assess inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) adherence. The purpose of this project was to determine the accuracy of refill histories for ICS (with or without long-acting beta agonist) listed in Epic's Medication Dispense Hist...
INTRODUCTION Poor patient adherence to medication is one of the most common causes of increased morbidity and mortality. Lack of adherence has been estimated to cost the U.S. health care system between $100 billion and $289 billion annually in direct costs1,2. Many studies are carried out to...
For example, a calibrated colour-basket system communicating that there are exactly five prescriptions left to dispense, and that three are repeat prescriptions for a surgery because they are in white baskets, and two are urgent and need immediate dispensing because they are in red baskets (Figure...