Improving Medication Safety Helps Control Costs

By Niels Erik Hansen, PhD If ongoing news reports of pharmacy product contaminations, recalls and patient injuries aren’t enough to prompt reforms to reduce errors in the compounding of IV medications, a study published late last year — which shows the significant cost burden hospitals bear from IV medication errors — should be. The report,... Read more

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Tags: Automation | Contamination | Efficiency | Error | IV compounding | Manual Compounding | Pharmacy Automation | Safety | UV

Meeting the 24/7/365 Pharmacy Services Challenge

by Craig A. Boyce , RPh This recent post “Seven day working for pharmacy“ highlights the growing trend that we need to provide 24/7 comprehensive pharmacy services.  While we can all agree in theory, the real question is how do we provide seamless services with the reality of today’s constrained budgets and staff resources? Read more

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Tags: Automation | Contamination | Efficiency | Error | IV compounding | Manual Compounding | Pharmacy Automation | Safety | UVAutomation | Contamination | Efficiency | Error | Fully Automated | IV compounding | Patient-specific | RIVA
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