Pharmapod Attends Medication Error Conference London

Pharmapod Attends Medication Error Conference London

The Medication Error Conference focused on reducing medication errors and improving patient care with a focus on a zero tolerance approach. “Progress has been made over the last decade to detect, report and learn from patient safety incidents, but further improvements are needed to increase the number of incident reports, improve data quality and maximise what is learned from medication errors....Medication errors are any patient safety incidents where there has been an error in the process of prescribing, preparing, dispensing, administering, monitoring or providing advice on medicines. These Patient Safety Incidents can be…Read more …
New Research on Incident Reporting Systems

New Research on Incident Reporting Systems

A new study published in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care shows that electronic management and clinical information systems can be used to improve the rate and quality of error reporting.  The study was carried out in two hospitals in Sydney by a team of researchers from the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research at Macquarie University Sydney.  They found the reporting rate for medication errors was very low, despite the practice being encouraged by hospital policies and senior management for quality improvement and patient safety standards. This corresponds with…Read more …
Upcoming Superintendent Webinars

Upcoming Superintendent Webinars

The Pharmapod System is now being widely used by superintendents to record and review errors and incidents within their pharmacies. It provides an effective clinical governance tool which ensures the best patient experience in the pharmacy and also helps superintendents demonstrate compliance during inspections.    We host regular webinars for Superintendents to demo our Incident Management System and provide an opportunity for them to ask any questions they may have. The sessions are carried out online and only take 20 mins. Details of our upcoming webinars are: January Webinar Schedule:   Wednesday 28th at…Read more …
Pharmapod CEO helps launch NDRC & UCDs exciting new Future Health Accelerator Programme

Pharmapod CEO helps launch NDRC & UCDs exciting new Future Health Accelerator Programme

Our CEO Leonora, helped launch the @NDRC and @UCD's exciting new Future Health Accelerator Programme yesterday.  FutureHealth, is  a new early stage start-up programme in Dublin focused on the digital-health sector. NDRC and UCD and are currently calling on clinicians, researchers and technologists to come on board.   The programme will have places for 10 teams over an eight-week period and will help new start-ups build and develop their commercial proposition.FutureHealth is a part-time programme, with a core commitment of nine full days over 8 weeks beginning 6th February, 2015 on site at…Read more …