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On a Mission to Improve CPOE Safety: A Conversation with Dr. Gordon Schiff from John Novack, Clinical Café. Quantros, which manages the MEDMARX medication adverse event database, will partner with the Center on a project to research errors reported as being associated with computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE).
Press on the Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Link to The Boston Channel news video.
Link to The Boston Globe's White Coat Notes blog Bar codes reduced medication errors in hospital study published May 5, 2010.
Dr. Bates is quoted in a New York Times article Using High-Tech to Lower Costs by Susan Okie published May 3, 2010.
Dr. Schiff has recently been selected to receive an NPSF award to study CPOE-related errors.
Listen to podcast: One-on-one w/CPOE Investigator G. Schiff
Carol Keohane, RN is quoted in Karen Pallarito's HealthDay News article Interrupting a Nurse Makes Medication Errors More Likely.
Listen to Dr. Bates on American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report about the article he
co-authored entitled Mixed results in the safety performance of computerized physician order entry published in Health Affairs. Podcast.
Members of the Center are collaborating with Canadian researchers at McGill University and at the University of Ottawa to improve patient care using information technology.
Read about this important work in The CUR-IT Project Newsletter.
Listen to podcast New Ways to Reduce Diagnosis Errors featuring Gordy Schiff, MD and moderated by Madge Kaplan.
Heidi B. King, MS, FACHE honored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) and awarded their 2009 Chairman's Medal. Press Release.
Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD's and Carol Keohane, RN's Perspective on The Role of Bar Coding and Smart Pumps in Safety can be read on AHRQ WebM&M.
Eric G. Poon, MD is interviewed on AHRQ WebM&M Perspectives on Safety section addressing Bar Coding for Medication Safety. Read In Conversation with...Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH or listen to the podcast.
Listen to Heidi King, MS, CHE, Deputy Director for the DoD Patient Safety Program, explain how the whole world is following the Military Health System's (MHS) lead in improving patient safety through a program called TeamSTEPPS - Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance, Performance and Patient Safety.on the Pentagon Radio Network Episode #7: The MHS leads the way in Patient Safety.
Gordon D. Schiff, MD's essay on diagnostic error is quoted in WebMD's story entitled
Overconfident Docs Need Dose Of Reality, Misdiagnoses Occur Up To 15% Of The Time, Physician Overconfidence May Be Partly To Blame.
David W. Bates, MD is interviewed on AHRQ WebM&M Perspectives on Safety - Computerization and Information Technology. Read In Conversation with...David W. Bates, MD, MSc or listen to the podcast.
Dr. David W. Bates was presented the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research by The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) at the SGIM Annual Scientific Meeting held April 9-12, 2008. The award is presented in recognition of a senior SGIM member 'whose innovative research has changed the way we care for patients, the way we conduct research, or the way we educate our students.'
David W. Bates, MD featured on WBZ TV Boston's report on Medical Mistakes Affect Local Patients.
View the video clip.
and on The Boston Channel's website Patients Risk Drug Errors report.
View the video clip.
