Today in Pharmacy Law, we’ve learned about the benefits of Informatics within the Clinical setting. The primary benefits of implementing changes include:
patient safety
cost containment/cost effective therapy
Workflow efficiency
political importance.
In this particular class, we learned about Dennis Quaid and his national campaign to minimize and eliminate errors that prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. On the opposite end of this debate, Baxter, the Heparin manufacturer has been quick to defend the errors are a direct result of product packaging.
In the end, Dennis Quaid’s way of putting it this event is that it is a preventable medical error. Just as American can recall dog food, tires, and other electronics, then it only makes sense to recall Heparin.
Links
To Err is Human Publication
Dennis Quaid USA Today
Dennis Quaid CBS News
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