- Frequency of and risk factors for medication errors by pharmacists during order verification in a tertiary care medical center (ajhp.org)
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy - Abstract
Purpose The frequency of and risk factors for medication errors by pharmacists during order verification in a tertiary care medical center were reviewed.
Conclusion An increase in the number of orders verified per shift was associated with an increased rate of pharmacist errors during order verification in a tertiary care medical center.
- Genomics offers promise of precision medicine (drugstorenews.com)
Human Genome Project has unlocked the complex mysteries of the human genome and unleashed a new era in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical research and development…pharmacy retailers must get out in front of that gene-based drug revolution or risk being left behind… potential health benefits of PGx (pharmacogenomics) are huge,.. So, too, is the field’s growth potential as an industry.
- Mayo Clinic takes aim at consumer genomics (healthcareitnews.com)
'The digitization of the genome will unleash entrepreneurs and developers'..Center for Individualized Medicine at Mayo Clinic is investing in and partnering with a new startup (Helix), developing tools and technology to put consumers in control of their genomic data…"Genomics is reaching an inflection point in cost, volumes and knowledge, creating a significant opportunity to unlock information that is currently not widely accessible to individuals,"
- Brookshire Grocery brings FlavoRx to customers (drugstorenews.com)
Brookshire Grocery announced this week that it would be equipping its pharmacies with Fillmaster Plus dispensing technology…feature FlavoRx medication flavoring….using FillPure’s water purification system for all water used in antibiotics and powdered suspension,...The machines make pharmaceutical reconstitution and flavoring easy while reducing dispensing errors…
- Could cameras in operating rooms reduce preventable medical deaths? (washingtonpost.com)
Chris Nowakoski’s wife died..during what should have been a routine procedure...Danny Long’s wife..suffered catastrophic neurological injury during a surgery to relieve numbness in her extremities..families still don’t know the full story of what happened to their loved ones because of a lack of documentation and an inability to pursue a costly lawsuit...an estimated 400,000 a year people…die in the United States of preventable medical errors,..the families say they could have known much more if cameras had been installed in the operating rooms, recording the actions and movements of the doctors and staffers involved.
- Federal appeals court affirms FTC’s power to regulate cybersecurity (modernhealthcare.com)
..federal appeals court…affirmed the Federal Trade Commission's power to regulate cybersecurity—a decision that follows a number of massive healthcare data breaches over the past year… FTC alleges that Wyndham engaged in unfair cybersecurity practices that exposed consumers' personal data to unauthorized access and theft…FTC doesn't now get involved in many healthcare breach cases,..But it could.
- HealthSpot brings new point-of-care revolution to telehealth kiosk (drugstorenews.com)
HealthSpot…unveiled a new functionality available through its in-store telehealth kiosks - a blood test that captures a number of health metrics in as little as 7 minutes…We are transforming retail clinics into a true extension of the local medical community and widening the scope of services…HealthSpot technology will connect lab results not only with the doctor’s electronic medical record but with the consumer’s personal health record and with the consumer’s insurance benefit plan and billing…
- Overlake CEO: Retail health clinics bring about a paradigm shift for hospitals (bizjournals.com)
..more and more, health care providers are teaming up with drugstores to provide care via in-store health clinics…trend based around convenience..shifts to focus more ..on the consumer, adapting means providing more services,..same-day access to a doctor, allowing people to interact with the health care system easily, and providing transparency...about the costs of procedures and quality of care.
- 18 health technologies poised for big growth (healthcareitnews.com)
'Now that you have all this data, what do you do with it?'..everyone's got an EMR…providers are also making use of ancillary technologies to help harness patient data toward more efficient care and better outcomes...But...are still surprisingly underused…the next step of optimization is going to require analysis and utilization of all these large data sets, and really clear insights on best practices."…We asked Schuchardt (dir. of market intelligence,HIMSS) to weigh in on the HIMSS Analytics list, offering his thoughts on the potential of each.
- Bed Management
- Business Intelligence
- Data Warehouse
- Dictation with Speech Recognition
- Enterprise Master Person Index
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Executive Information Systems
- Financial Modeling
- Infection Surveillance System
- Laboratory (Molecular Diagnostics)
- Laboratory (Outreach Services)
- Medical Necessity Checking
- Nurse Communication System
- Nurse Staffing/Scheduling
- Patient Portal
- Physician Portal
- Single Sign-on
- Staff Scheduling
- Is ketamine the best hope for curing major depression? (bloomberg.com)
Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved ketamine for the treatment of mood disorders, but… studies show that it can quickly alleviate severe depression. There’s no regulation to stop doctors like Brooks from administering ketamine for nonapproved uses—a practice known as "off-label" treatment—"For patients who are suicidal…they can get relief within an hour or two,"…