PSQH: The Podcast Episode 110 – The Importance of Tracking Medication Adherence
On episode 110 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Juan Maldonado, a Texas-based family medicine specialist, talks about his efforts to track medication adherence.
Deprescribing is Important Element of Medication Management
The primary risk with multiple medications is medication interactions. This risk can lead to an increase or decrease in the effects of medications as well as undesired effects and side effects.
ISMP Updates Tool for Error Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations
The terms included in the 2024 List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations are gathered through reports to ISMP’s voluntary error reporting program and have been involved in harmful or potentially harmful medication errors.
Nurse Navigator Program Helps CHF Patients Find Their Way
One organization has pioneered a program aimed to empower patients with CHF and their families to navigate the complexities and challenges of their illness. Magnolia Regional Health Center has created its new Nurse Navigator program, intended to create seamless integration between prescription data fill—an important factor for prioritizing patients for targeted interventions.
Leveraging Pharmacist Expertise in Patient Safety
The HHS notes that most adverse drug events are preventable. A recent study helps quantify the impact pharmacists can have in identifying medication errors at transitions of care and the impact of a method for categorizing the scale and severity of medication errors corrected by pharmacy staff during medication reconciliation at admission.
Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grades Show Improvement in Patient Experience and Infection Prevention
Hospitals are seeing improvements in patient experience and a decrease in preventable healthcare-associated infections (HAI), according to The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grades.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 101 – Preventing Drug Diversion with Technology
On episode 101 of PSQH: The Podcast, Karen Kobelski, vice president and general manager of clinical surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions, Wolters Kluwer Health, talks about preventing drug diversion.
How to Use EHRs to Reduce Dangerous Drug-Drug Interactions
With the advent of EHRs and digital health technology, health systems are looking to reduce those interactions by pinpointing when they can occur and giving clinicians on-demand access to information to prevent them. But that technology depends on understanding how clinicians prescribe drugs and how they look for dangerous interactions.
Comprehensive Medication Management: Improving Outcomes and ROI
Experts point to a holistic approach integrating pharmacists into primary care teams and comprehensive medication management that assesses each patient’s medications for appropriateness, effectiveness, safety, and adherence. This whole person model leads not only to patient safety improvement and better outcomes, but improved ROI as well.
DEA Extending Telemedicine Prescription Waiver Through 2024
The DEA and Health and Human Services Department will publish the extension in the Federal Register this week. The decision comes after two public listening sessions last month and a public comment period on proposed telemedicine rules that garnered more than 38,000 comments, many of them critical.