Picture this scenario: It’s the night shift in a community hospital ED that sees mostly adults. Two harried parents rush in with their three-week-old who is running a high fever.
Protecting Children in the Emergency Department: The National Pediatric Readiness Project Is Ready for Launch
A 10-year-old girl sustains a head injury in a playground accident. Parents are panicked over respiratory distress in their infant daughter. A 5-year old boy is suffering from abdominal pain due to suspected accidental poisoning. These are among the most common...
Time to Rethink the Independent Double Check: The Impact of COVID-19 on Ensuring Medication Administration Safety
COVID-19 has upended the world as we know it in many aspects of life: business, entertainment, travel, and education just to name a few. Obviously nowhere has the impact of the virus been felt more prominently than in healthcare. Dealing with the virus in addition to...
Safe Medication Administration Can Protect Patients…and Help Hospitals Earn High Patient Safety Grades
In a world of seemingly pervasive negativity, it’s always a pleasant change to share good news. We recently received some from one of our local Massachusetts hospitals when UMass Memorial – Marlborough Hospital was awarded the top grade of “A” in the 2019 Fall...
A Third of Medication Errors Relate to EHR Usability: It’s Time to Leverage Digital Dosing Technology
Thermometers. X-Rays. Aspirin. What else do these three items have in common besides being found in every hospital in the world? They were all rejected when first introduced. In the 1700’s, Daniel Fahrenheit’s “temperature sensor” was dismissed since physicians of the...