Posts tagged "Patient safety"
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Mar 9, 2010 • Comments Closed We have a brand new and very compelling White Paper just out. Compliance with UDI Labeling Mandates: A Proven Methodology, was produced because, as the introduction states: There has never been a better or more urgent time for manufacturers of healthcare products to make a close examination of their product labeling systems. If you read...
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Starting last July, all pharmacies in South Australia were required to start using barcode scanners. Now, about five months later, the early results show a decrease in errors of 50%, according to this article from Pharmacy News. I’m intrigued, however, by the comments of Peter Halstead,
Dana Flavelle, writing for the Toronto Star has brought mainstream media attention to GS1 Canada’s roll out of a solution that lets consumers learn of product recalls at the store checkout. The story carries the headline, “Product recalls soon to be listed at checkout.”
According to Joanne Mette, chief nursing officer at Kaiser Permanente in Hayward and Fremont [California] . . . nurses can be interrupted five to 10 times in the course of giving one medication. Her story, and that of other San Francisco bay area hospitals attempting to reduce medication errors is featured in this San Francisco...
I go to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website almost every day to glimpse their recent news releases. That’s because sometimes their announcements don’t seem to get much pick up in the usual places. Yesterday they issued this news release. The headline is: FDA Unveils Safe Use Initiative that Targets Preventable Harm from Medication...
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Nov 3, 2009 • Comments Closed If you want a glimpse into how the application of patient, medical record, and treatment applications, outcomes and costs can be improved everywhere and for all by a set of national digital healthcare standards,
“The Upside of a Unique Device Identification (UDI) Mandate” is the topic of an online keynote speech that will be given by Jay Crowley, senior advisor for patient safety, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 2 as part of the Track & Trace Virtual Trade Show.
Okay, yet another example of how bedside medication and barcodes is clearly needed in every hospital now! This recent article includes a brief mention of how the Veterans Affairs health system implements bedside barcoding:
The Associated Press put out a story today that’s getting a lot of traction and that’s good because this report, entitled “US has no good system to track medical implants” is bound to get a lot of average people interested very quickly in what needs to happen. It also might get a lot of the...
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unveiled a new electronic database where manufacturers must notify the government if they believe one of their products is likely to cause sickness or death in people or animals.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to make electronic filing of safety reports mandatory by this time next year according to this news report in Government Health IT. It is a change the FDA says will help it detect emerging safety problems sooner and respond with safety information to the public in less...
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If you’re not familiar with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) — and especially if you are a pharmacist — you may want to check them out.
GHS and Regulatory Labeling Challenges in the New Era 
