Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

Team Alice focuses on reducing what many people would call “medication errors,” especially in older adults. Here’s how those ...

1. Ask questions and disclose as much information as you can. Ask your doctor or pharmacist questions about your medications and what they treat. Knowing what medications you take and why can help you ...

Smart glasses paired with artificial intelligence can emerge as a new tool to improve safety and precision in healthcare.

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

When Dr. David Friedman was a young doctor in South Africa, he didn’t know much. But one thing he did know was what drugs his patients were receiving in the cardiac unit of the old Johannesburg ...

SIOUX CITY | You can surf the web on a Smart TV, post to social media sites and listen to music on a smartphone and track your mileage on a smartwatch. But smart technology goes beyond entertainment ...

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health is using artificial intelligence to identify potential medication errors and improve pharmacy workflows, the health system said June 29. Ballad is using a ...

Though it is debated whether the overdose caused Harper's later problems, her story is only one of more than a million stories of people who are harmed by avoidable drug errors. An estimated 1.5 ...