By: Irene Wasilewski, Application Consultant Despite health professionals’ focus on safety, a small proportion of patients experience some type of unintended harm as a result of the care they receive. The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in conjunction with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) recently released a report using 2014/2015 data to measure... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | SafetyBy: David Pilkington, Software Developer I’ve been a software developer all my adult life and then some – back to the days when we were called “computer programmers.” In those 35 years I’ve learned a few lessons, and one has definitely been that those who write the software should definitely not be the ones charged... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | Efficiency | People | SoftwareBy Dan Hawkins M.B.A., Director of Information Technology Edited by Mike Grzesik, Infrastructure Security Specialist My team and I just finished up a project that left me exhausted, elated, proud, and much wiser than before we started. We moved a Web-based Data Center application from one Internet hosting provider to another in a 60... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | PeopleBy: Betty Plummer, Software Developer Pharmacy software generates a lot of data. It needs to be saved (or persisted) for reference or reporting. The gold standard for the past few decades has been to use a relational database, where data is pulled apart and stored in tables as related bits that can be put back... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | SoftwareBy: Nancy Panos, Application Consultant You are about to spend hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions on a new technology for your pharmacy operation. You did all the work to get the project signoff, got the funding and you’re eager to have the installation done, because the business benefits are going to be AMAZING. But... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | Efficiency | PeopleBy: Irene Wasilewski, Application Consultant What is NAPRA? The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) is a voluntary association of Canadian provincial and territorial pharmacy regulatory bodies as well as the Canadian Forces Pharmacy Services. NAPRA members regulate the practice of pharmacy and operation of pharmacies in their respective jurisdictions in Canada. Their primary... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | RegulatoryBy: Erica Ellis, Application Consultant As an Industrial Engineer, I have a unique perspective on how work is done in a pharmacy. Whether it is inpatient, outpatient, long-term care, mail order, etc. each pharmacy has specific processes that must be completed by both pharmacists and technicians in order to deliver medications to its patients. Many... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | Efficiency | PeopleBy: Michael Grzesik, Infrastructure Security Specialist It’s back to business as usual for the hacked hospitals that were highlighted in my last post. Undoubtedly, they have learned a big lesson from the events just weeks ago. January, February and March were busy months for healthcare data breaches. Here’s an update: Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | SecurityBy Jason Spencer, Implementation Specialist Before joining ARxIUM, I spent a fair amount of time in the underbelly of the long term care world. Fifteen years to be exact. Fifteen years of learning the ins and outs of the old FDS: from navigating the flow of batches, troubleshooting the heat rollers while burning fingers and... Read more
Categories: Announcements | Blog | Efficiency | PeopleBy: Mike Grzesik, Infrastructure Security Specialist These could become all too familiar stories from this year when we take a look back this next December. And this isn’t Hollywood or Bollywood, it is real. Read more
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