April 23, 2012 | In: Healthcare Barcoding Influencers
Bellevue WA, April 207, 2012— On May 2-4, 2012, in Anaheim, CA The TerraPharma Project, LLC will convene hospital executives, pharmacists, nurses, safety directors, and information technology professionals at The 7th Annual unSUMMIT for Bedside...
April 19, 2012 | In: Reference Materials
Richardson B, Bromirski B, Hayden A. Clin Nurse Spec. 2012 May;26(3):169-76. Author Affiliations: Clinical Nurse Specialists (Mss Richardson and Bromirski) and Patient Safety and Quality Specialist (Dr Hayden), Southwestern Vermont Medical Center,...
April 19, 2012 | In: Reference Materials
ASHP national survey of pharmacy practice in hospital settings: Dispensing and administration—2011 Craig A. Pedersen⇓, Philip J. Schneider and Douglas J. Scheckelhoff Craig A. Pedersen, B.S.Pharm., Ph.D., FAPhA, is Manager, Pharmacy...
April 17, 2012 | In: Healthcare Barcoding Influencers
The proposed Stage 2 rule spans the healthcare continuum, but one objective, in particular, presents a significant opportunity to address a top source of patient harm. The criterion calls for 10% of medication orders to be tracked in electronic medication...
April 16, 2012 | In: I've Been Thinking
Hmm. There’s more than one way you could take that, huh? Like Someday when I get around to it (I’m not sure) I may admit that I was wrong about something. Actually, I’ve been thinking about the concept of admitting wrong. So don’t get your hopes...
March 15, 2012 | In: Healthcare Barcoding Influencers
In this audio slide presentation, Eric Poon, MD, MPH, IS Director of Clinical Informatics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital discusses how barcode medication verification can potentially reduce thousands of medication-related errors per year. Link:...
March 12, 2012 | In: I've Been Thinking
Were you mesmerized when Adele nailed Rolling in the Deep at the Grammy’s? I was. It's a song of regret over love that could have been, summarized repeatedly with, “We could have had it all.” But the mud that stuck to my wall was the climax:...
February 23, 2012 | In: Healthcare Barcoding Influencers
By Jamie Kelly Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, March / April 2012 On February 23, 2012, CMS took the next step toward meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) by proposing Stage 2 criteria. In 2 years, CMS has provoked dramatic...
February 7, 2012 | In: I've Been Thinking
I’ve stayed at hundreds of hotels across the nation and in 31 countries. My kids say I’m a hotel snob. When a Kimpton Hotel is in town, it's a no brainer, unless there’s more than one. The interior design appeals to my side of the brain. The fresh,...
January 23, 2012 | In: I've Been Thinking
Snow falling in record quantities has not deterred God’s smaller creatures from visiting the bird feeder outside my window. Nor has it impacted their access behaviors. Presently, black-capped chickadees are having a free for all—two, then five, now...