Tag Archives: Errors

Study highlights role of EHRs in pediatric medication errors

Dive Brief: Prescribing medications for kids requires unique considerations such as lower body weight, which could lead even small errors to cause patient harm. Yet little is known about how EHR usability issues affect medication errors, a new Health Affairs study says. Raj Ratwani of MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and other… Read More: Study highlights role of EHRs in pediatric medication errors »

New pumps at McLaren Hospital to reduce medication errors

Here is Health Data Management’s weekly roundup of health IT contract wins and go-lives: * McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital in Michigan has integrated the Infusomat Space Large Volume Pumps of B. Braun Medical with help from Cerner, its electronic health record vendor. Nurses send infusion order data to B. Braun’s pumps. Real-time data is then… Read More: New pumps at McLaren Hospital to reduce medication errors »