In 1975, the work of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) officially began. Six years ...
Medication Reconciliation
In 1975, the work of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) officially began. Six years ...
Medication Management
A while back, we compared medication therapy management (MTM) and comprehensive medication ...
Medication Management
We have a bone to pick with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC states ...
Medication Reconciliation
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the brisk pace of the emergency department (ED) already made it a ...
Medication Management
If you've come to this blog to get an answer to the question, "What is medication therapy ...
Medication Reconciliation
More than 15 years after The Joint Commission established medication reconciliation as a National ...
Medication Reconciliation
At Cureatr, one of our areas of focus is medication reconciliation post-discharge (MRP). It's a ...
Medication Reconciliation
Medication reconciliation has been a subject of significant importance for many years, considering ...
Medication Reconciliation
"Bring your meds." It's a ubiquitous instruction by admissions and medical office staff when ...
Medication Reconciliation
In 2005, The Joint Commission added medication reconciliation as a National Patient Safety Goal ...
Medication Reconciliation
In recent blogs, we've highlighted the importance of effective medication reconciliation, noting ...
Medication Reconciliation
On the surface, the concept of medication reconciliation seems quite simple. It can be defined as ...
Medication Reconciliation
Just how important is medication reconciliation? A regularly referenced survey shows that ...
Polypharmacy
The results of a recent study published in JAMA have further shined the spotlight on the risks ...
Polypharmacy
We've been discussing polypharmacy at length in recent blogs, touching on everything from ...
Polypharmacy
While polypharmacy has received increased attention in recent years, the term has been in use for ...
Polypharmacy
Polypharmacy has been described as a "global risk factor for elderly people" and for good reason: ...
Medication Adherence
A few weeks have passed since the end of 2020, and what a year it was. What occurred last year will ...
Polypharmacy
For years, clinicians and medication experts have sounded the alarm on polypharmacy, which is ...
Telepharmacy
As the title indicates, we'll be discussing telepharmacy benefits and drawbacks in this blog. While ...
Telepharmacy
Telepharmacy will celebrate its 20th birthday next year, and yet the concept was still considered a ...
Telepharmacy
In 2018, an article in Perspectives in Health Information Management, the research journal of the ...
Telehealth
In the coming months and years, we expect you will be hearing a lot more about telepharmacy. While ...
Telepharmacy
In a recent blog, we discussed a few of the most significant ways pharmacists could further aid in ...
Telehealth
About a year ago, we published a blog discussing the difference between telemedicine and ...
Clinical Pharmacist
During a crisis like such as the one we are experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare ...
Telepharmacy
Over the past several weeks, as the federal government and state governments have ramped up their ...
Medication Adherence
As we have highlighted, patients do not take their medicine as prescribed about 50% of the time and ...
Telehealth
Telehealth and telemedicine are in the spotlight as the country works to "flatten the curve" on the ...
Telehealth
One of the few positives to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is the greater understanding and ...
Medication Compliance
Everyone knows the phrase, “Take two pills and call me in the morning.” However, for many patients, ...
Medication Compliance
The fast-paced society in which we live makes it difficult to remember even the simplest details of ...
Medication Compliance
Medication management is difficult for many patients, but the challenge is often elevated for ...
Medication Compliance
When providers undertake efforts aimed at improving medication compliance, they not only help ...
Medication Compliance
Poor medication compliance (i.e., noncompliance) can have devastating effects on a patient, ...
Medication Management
As we approach the end of the year, let’s examine some of the most significant news and ...
Medication Adherence
Treatment adherence. Treatment compliance. On the surface, these terms appear synonymous. After ...
Medication Adherence
The significance of medication adherence for patients is summarized perfectly by NEJM Catalyst: ...
Telehealth
Discussions around telehealth often focus on its applications for primary and acute care providers. ...
Medication Adherence
What do suboptimal outcomes, higher rates of hospital admissions, increased morbidity and ...
Healthcare Technology
ECRI Institute has issued its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards. While addressing ...
Telehealth
Today’s health systems have set their sights on value-based care, a large component of which is ...
Telehealth
The adoption of telemedicine in healthcare is surging. We're not surprised considering the numerous ...
Medication Management
This is the third in a series of blog posts that describe common challenges associated with ...
Telehealth
Radiology, psychiatry, and cardiology are three specialties leading the use of telehealth with ...
Telehealth
In 2018, consumers worldwide downloaded more than 400 million medical apps, according to mobile ...
Telehealth
According to GSMA real-time intelligence data, over 5.13 billion people had mobile devices ...
Telehealth
Telehealth is growing rapidly, with one recent survey finding that inpatient adoption of such ...
Telehealth
Over the last three to five years, mobile technology in healthcare - often referred to as mHealth - ...
Telehealth
Are you thinking about adding telehealth technology to your organization and offering telehealth ...
Medication Management
This is the second blog in a series of patient scenarios that describe common challenges associated ...
Medication Management
Last month, we began a series of blog posts that cover patient scenarios that describe common ...
Medication Management
Every day, at least 130 people are projected to die from opioid-related drug overdoses, reports the ...
Healthcare Technology
My recent blog about telehealth described it as the overarching term for healthcare services ...
Healthcare Technology
Telehealth is a broad term used to describe the delivery of healthcare services using ...
Medication Management
When we set out to develop the Meds 360° medication management platform, we wanted to eliminate the ...
Medication Management
How important is chronic disease management? Here are some statistics and facts about chronic ...
Medication Management
In 2003, passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) ...
Medication Management
What if you could deliver comprehensive medication management services in your healthcare ...
Medication Management
Organizations striving to implement comprehensive medication management (CMM) programs are ...
Medication Management
The U.S. health system’s current standard of care for optimizing medication therapy is not working. ...
Medication Management
Looking to improve patient medication management? Few initiatives have the potential deliver the ...
Medication Management
A recent study calculated the cost of prescription drug related morbidity and mortality to be ...
Medication Management
There was recently some good news about physician burnout. As an American Medical Association ...
Medication Management
As we discussed in a previous blog, there are many comprehensive medication management benefits. ...
Medication Management
Ensuring proper medication therapy isn't easy. As an American College of Clinical Pharmacy notes, ...
Medication Management
Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) has become a more widely used way to improve outcomes and ...
Medication Management
According to Gallup's latest annual poll on how the general American public views various ...
Medication Management
Polypharmacy is a term to describe patients who are taking multiple prescription medications, over ...
Medication Management
In simple terms, “polypharmacy” refers to the use of multiple (“poly”) medications (“pharmacy”). A ...
Medication Management
Drug interactions represent a significant threat to the wellbeing of patients. As part of their ...
Medication Management
Medication therapy is a critical therapeutic component of treating disease and keeping people ...
Medication Adherence
Polypharmacy is the simultaneous use of multiple medications by patients to treat one or more ...
Medication Management
It's easy for patients to make significant mistakes with their medications. We know this because ...
Medication Management
Ensuring that medications are given safely and accurately is a cornerstone of safe medical care. ...
Medication Management
Medication management in hospitals is vitally important to the delivery of safe care. As the RARE ...
Medication Management
Medication management is the process of overseeing the medications prescribed for a patient to ...
Medication Management
Medication errors can occur at any time between when a clinician prescribes a medication and a ...
Medication Management
Medication management is a patient-focused approach to helping patients take their medicines ...
Medication Management
Opioids claimed over 64,000 lives in 2017 and data show an almost fourfold increase in overdose ...
Medication Management
As people age, their risk of medication-related problems increases. As a Consumer Reports article ...
Medication Management
Effective medication management is vital to achieving optimal outcomes. When providers can help ...
Healthcare Technology
The multitude of ways that artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotic surgery, ...
Healthcare Technology
The U.S. healthcare industry is notoriously slow when it comes to adopting change and technology is ...
Healthcare Technology
When I started practicing medicine, the office staff used a paper-based ledger system to manage ...
Healthcare Technology
2018 was a year where technology further cemented its critical role in healthcare. There are few, ...
Healthcare Technology
How has technology affected healthcare? A column published on the Healthcare Information and ...
Healthcare Technology
Proliferation of mobile devices and tablets, a drive toward managing and sharing risk, and a need ...
Medication Management
To determine whether an organization's efforts to assist patients with medication management were ...
Healthcare Technology
For years, software engineers designed healthcare technologies for use only on terminal screens and ...
Healthcare Technology
When I began practicing medicine, the medical record was a paper chart. The chart typically ...
Medication Management
All the terrific treatment your organization provides to a patient may be for naught if that ...
Medication Management
It’s well known and documented that medication adherence can mean the difference between a ...
Medication Management
With hundreds of millions of drugs ordered or provided every year in hospitals, the cost associated ...
Medication Management
Spend some time researching medication adherence and you will inevitably come across this famous ...
Medication Management
How does your hospital or clinic keep patients safe from medication harm? In chaotic emergency ...
Medication Adherence
While often used interchangeably, medication adherence and medication compliance can be defined ...
Medication Management
Many chronic and acute conditions can be successfully treated with medications. As long as patients ...
Medication Adherence
There are literally thousands of apps designed to help patients remember to take their medicine. A ...
Medication Adherence
A simple pill. When taken consistently and on schedule, it can help patients control and even ...
Medication Adherence
For years, those of us in healthcare have generally cited the following estimates to illustrate the ...
Medication Adherence
If your organization doesn’t have effective processes in place for medication adherence, it's time ...
Medication Adherence
Our team recently ran across these interesting medication adherence statistics, all of which have ...
Medication Compliance
Medication adherence refers to the degree or extent patients conform to a provider’s recommended ...
Medication Adherence
Consider these statistics: In the United States, nearly 4 million prescriptions are written ...
Medication Adherence
It’s widely recognized that about half of the medicines prescribed to patients are not taken as ...
Care Management
There is no silver bullet answer to improving medication adherence and management in the outpatient ...
Care Management
One cannot understate the importance of the patient intake process. The results of a survey ...
Care Management
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) defines "care management" as follows: "Care management is ...
Care Management
Billions and billions of wasted dollars — $12 to $44 billion dollars, in fact. That's how much ...
Care Management
From scheduling doctor visits and picking up medications and DME, to finding a home health ...
Care Management
A recent piece in the New York Times caught my eye for its excellent layman’s primer about a ...
Patient Safety
One day after the wedding, my colleague’s new husband was in the yard chopping wood when his foot ...
Patient Safety
Multiple studies indicate that ineffective communication among health care professionals is one of ...
Care Management
“Seamless” discharge planning happens when a patient is effectively and safely transitioned from ...
Patient Safety
How do you know when an organization is excelling in providing quality patient care? It receives ...
Care Management
The responsibility for patients does not end for hospitals upon discharge. Hospitals maintain and ...
Care Management
A discharge summary plays a crucial role in keeping patients safe after leaving a hospital. As an ...
Patient Safety
A patient safety model that truly works for patients can only exist in a culture of safety. Yet 15 ...
Medication Reconciliation
Medication reconciliation is not intended as a single event. Rather, as The Joint Commission notes ...
Patient Safety
I considered dozens of patient care issues for this post. I chose these five for their relevance to ...
Patient Safety
In a busy pediatric ER at the end of a grueling 12 hour shift, a nurse and a physician were caring ...
Medication Reconciliation
It doesn't take much to cause a medication error. Misplace a decimal point. Change a couple letters ...
Patient Safety
Nurses are a stalwart player on the patient care team. But even the most dedicated face a series of ...
Care Management
Approximately 13 percent of 30-day hospital readmissions occur due to adverse drug events (ADE), ...
Care Management
Just how important are effective care transitions to ensuring patient safety and avoiding adverse ...
Patient Safety
In my post from June, "The Importance of Patient Safety in Hospitals," I discussed the major impact ...
Patient Safety
In my post from June 21, 2018, I briefly discussed how the first five of ECRI’s Top 10 Patient ...
Medication Reconciliation
The number of patients taking prescribed medicines is shocking. Nearly half of the U.S. population ...
Care Management
If your hospital is looking to strengthen patient outcomes, there may be no better area to target ...
Medication Reconciliation
After refusing to have an infected tooth pulled, Sue’s dentist prescribed amoxicillin to treat the ...
Medication Reconciliation
Patients don’t take their medicine as prescribed about 50% of the time.[1] And approximately 25% of ...
Patient Safety
As healthcare providers, it is imperative that we put ourselves in the shoes of our patients. ...
Patient Safety
Imagine this scenario: Someone is lying on the sidewalk, having a seizure or unconscious. A ...
Patient Safety
Since 2009, the ECRI institute has released an annual report identifying the top 10 patient safety ...
Patient Safety
A 2016 analysis by Johns Hopkins patient safety experts revealed that more than 250,000 deaths ...
