Presentations and Research
Review the latest research and presentations on bar-code scanning, the reasons for it, and the benefits
realized because of it.
April 2011
Learn more about the industry-wide financial, safety and efficiency initiatives driving the change to bar-code readiness, and why now is a critical time to consider becoming bar-code ready.
April 2011
With more and more medications becoming available in unit dose form, opportunities are opening for hospital pharmacies to save on labor costs and improve patient safety.
November 2010
More than one in seven hospitalized Medicare patients experienced an adverse event caused by their hospital stay, while another 13.5 percent of Medicare patients received care that caused temporary harm. Medication errors were the main cause in one-third of the cases studied.
August 2010
Learn why Riverside Methodist Hospital chose to implement additional pharmacy automation, what considerations were made in the determination of the product, and the benefits realized due to implementation.
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
July 2010
This study reviews the perceptions of nurses on how and why medication errors occur, as well as provides insight into nurses’ personal experience with medication errors.
June 2010
An independent research agency tested 214 hospitals’ CPOE systems to determine their ability to deter medication errors. The group provided recommendations on consistent testing and monitoring functions for CPOE systems, as well as on the development of a means to share best practice information on health information technology adoption.
Current Drug Safety
2010
Implementing health information technology can result in reduced ADEs and improved patient care and safety. As systems integration is vital to the success of information technology, those hospitals that are best covered and leverage greater automation tend to have better patient outcomes and lower hospital costs.
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April 2010
Hospital pharmacies are using more manufacturer-packaged unit-dose oral solid medications compared to repackaging medications by themselves, according to this independent study.
A “Stacked” Medication Supply Chain Rollout Leads to Rapid Safety, Efficiency,
and Cost Benefits
June 2008
CCMH established a bar-code foundation to support patient safety, productivity and inventory management initiatives. As a result, checking labor was cut by 90%, technician labor was cut by 33%, and the hospital projected an eight-fold increase in time spent by pharmacists for clinical duties, reducing potential ADEs by 10% annually.
Integrated Pharmacy Automation Systems Lead to Increases in Patient Safety and
Significant Reductions in Medication Inventory Costs
February 2008
Before implementing automation solutions, Shore Memorial Hospital employed largely manual processes for filling and dispensing and non-patient-floor specific inventory control. By implementing bar-code-based automation solutions, the hospital was able to improve patient safety and support labor and inventory improvement initiatives.
Implementing a "Bedside-Back" Strategy as the Foundation for Patient Safety
June 2007
Concerned by the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) landmark report, "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital developed a cohesive plan for implementing a closed-loop, bar-code-based medication management system to improve patient safety. By doing so, the hospital increased the amount of clinical time pharmacists spent with patients from 0% to 78% and achieved an annual $1.8 million in annual cost avoidance due to the increased pharmacist-patient interventions.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
February 2006
Study finds that with higher volumes of medications dispensed, even a low rate of drug distribution process means a large number of errors occur, with the potential to harm patients.