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A study investigating medical errors has many healthcare professionals wondering if technology has the potential to reduce preventable medical errors, according to TNW News. 1. The study found of ...

For example, workers may draw medication from the right vial but mislabel the syringe, or they may correctly label the syringe but draw from the wrong vial. Although barcode labels, color-coding ...

CMS’s Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization has created its first mobile app, called Management of Anticoagulation in the Peri-Procedural Period. MAPPP was created to tell ...

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Safen’s tags can be used to label intravenous lines and indicate what drug is being used for a particular patient. The tags were invented by former Fort Worth doctor Dr. David Friedman and designed to ...