There have been several incidents of hospital staffers searching computerized medication cabinets with three or fewer letters and then administering or nearly administering the wrong drug. Hospitals are not required to report most drug mix-ups.
Bainbridge Health has raised about $3.5 million in seed funding to date, including $1.6 million from BioAdvance, Chestnut Street Ventures and, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
How is this still a thing? How is it that pharmacists routinely aren't checking for drug-drug interactions?
A publicist really needs to be fired.
Based on the 2015 hospital survey, CPOE systems failed to send alerts for 39 percent of potentially harmful drug orders and 13 percent of potentially fatal orders.
The case against the quality of American healthcare just gets stronger, and patients continue to suffer.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Medication mix-up’s are a well-known source of errors and harm in the hospital. So we shouldn’t be surprised that similar errors occur in other settings, including the home. Medication Errors in the Home: A Multisite Study of Children With Cancer in the journal Pediatrics documents the high rate of errors in at-home administration of medications for [...]
