Digital cameras, blenders, food processors, waffle makers, espresso machines, jewelry, luggage, gas grills, fishing rods, and telescopes. These are some of the items that workers at Wika Instrument Corp., a Lawrenceville, GA-based manufacturer of pressure and temperature instrumentation, can receive for improving their own safety.
Hospital pharmacies have had to scramble to meet the tough revised requirements of the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) chapter 797 standards for pharmaceutical compounding and sterile preparations, which were made official on June 1, 2008.
Hospital pharmacists who have been using an electronic system to meet USP 797 standards say it makes it easier to be consistent and timely with a variety of tasks.
Researchers and industrial engineers are working together on a project that could help hospital pharmacies improve patient safety through work process design.
Hospitals can improve emergency department operations by adding pharmacists to the mix. Here are some ways this will benefit the organization:
The driving mission of a telepharmacy model is to help people take a central role in their own health care by providing pharmacy support, along with counseling, an expert states.
Hospital systems and academic medical centers that are considering adopting telepharmacy might follow these tips:
