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- VeriScan and HP iPAQ Pocket PCs Reduce Medication Errors
- Patients and nurses at St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, can all rest better these days knowing that new technology running on HP iPAQ Pocket PCs is protecting patients from medication errors and reducing health care costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Using bar-code and RFID technology...
- Tags: Patient, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Medication Error
- Case studies
- Is there an e-doctor in the house?
- I don't pretend to be a doctor (and I don't play one on TV), so when I receive a prescription for some sort of medication, I don't even try to figure out what the handwriting says on the piece of paper that I hand to the pharmacist. Do pharmacists always know...
- Tags: Pharmacist, Medication Error, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
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- Using Arrays to Calculate Medication Utilization
- Assessing duration of medication therapy involves managing a data set with multiple observations per subject. This paper offers an innovative approach to calculating medication utilization as the proportion of days supplied over a specified time period. In this paper, the TRANSPOSE procedure, ARRAY statements, and DO loops are used to...
- Tags: Medication Utilization
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Beloit Memorial Hospital Adopts Bar Code Medication Administration System and Error Rate Plummets
- Beloit Memorial Hospital is a community hospital affiliated with the University of Wisconsin Hospital system. Beloit Memorial Hospital was searching for a technology-based system that would meet their primary goals of improving patient safety and ensuring positive patient identification. Equipped with a Symbol mobile PDA loaded with wCareMed, nurses at...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Symbol Technologies Inc., Beloit Memorial Hospital
- Case studies
- Nortel Network Case Study: excelleRx
- excelleRx, Inc. A leader in pharmaceutical care relies on the latest contact center technology for advanced medication management. The excelleRx contact center agents are highly skilled and their medication management services are of critical importance to caregivers and the 70,000 patients they service every day. Assuring efficient access and high-quality...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Contact Center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Speech Recognition, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2007-04-13
- About health of my Father
- My father is 65 year old and he is suffering a lot for last 8 months from severe pain in whole body, abdomen. There is no positive clinical dignosis, in opnion of doctors there is no problem. But still he is being suffered a lot. So please suggest what to...
- Tags: manojjain10@..., information technology, health
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- St. Clair Hospital Saves Lives With Socket Combo RFID Reader/Bar Code Scanner
- The Institute of Medicine estimates that more than 44,000 Americans die each year in hospitals from medical errors, with 7,000 resulting from medication-related errors alone. St. Clair Hospital of Pittsburgh, a 331-bed independent community hospital, is proactively reducing medication errors with its innovative Five Rights Medication Verification System, which equips...
- Tags: Socket Communications, Hospital, Scanner, Medication, Healthcare, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Case studies
- OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Speeds Up Physician Medication Order Fulfillment
- Dedicated to providing quality patient care that is safe, compassionate and caring, OSF Saint Francis is renowned for its high-technology, leading-edge medical services, including robotic surgery and heart, kidney and pancreatic transplants. But despite all of its technology innovations, the process of writing physician medication orders on pads of paper...
- Tags: Physician, Lexmark International Inc.
- Case studies
- Photos: Medication reminders of the future
- Technology is offering a hand to people who need to be reminded to keep up with taking their pills.
- Tags: pill, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-05
- Dataminning to Investigate the Prescribing of Medications Longitudinally
- High performance forecasting can be applied to healthcare data where the time variable is transactional. Once the trend of the medication is known, researchers can study the medication thoroughly to lower costs and improve care. Severity conditions of a patient are classified using Enterprise Miner data mining. Probability density estimation...
- Tags: Patient, Health Care, Medication, Probability Density Estimation, Data Mining, Vertical Industries, Business Intelligence, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Qualcomm Case Study: Florida Medicaid Pharmacy Services
- The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Florida Medicaid Pharmacy Services, serves 1.6 million patients statewide, supporting 36 million transactions per year. Florida Medicaid Pharmacy Services wanted to streamline the prescription process by providing accurate, concise and up-to-date records of a patient's medication history to physicians, at the time the...
- Tags: Patient, Physician, Qualcomm Inc., Pocket PC, Handhelds, Hardware
- Case studies
- Doctor Tracker (msi)
- Tracks doctors, medications, illness, notes and history for each of your family members. Will even track history of deleted entries to show when you start, end and maybe restart things like medication. Can be useful to show your doctors.
- Tags: Medication
- Software downloads 2007-04-12
- Site Feedback / Error Report
- What is up with this page.http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6239-0.html?forumID=39&threadID=84548IE gives error: syntax error. Line: 492 etc..You should be able to see the error if you load the link up in IE, FireFox doesnt show the error cause it looks like it's an MS exception.Looking into itWe'll see what we can figure out.
- Tags: Web browsers
- Discussion threads 2006-01-29
- Mini RX (zip)
- Track your medical information and set a reminder for your prescriptions. Records patient/user names and medication, Rx numbers, refills, costs, quantities, dose, doctors, pharmacies, generics, and notes. Includes two free utilities. The first allows you to transfer data to/from your PC. The second lets you print/view reports from your PC...
- Tags: Phone, Pharmacy, Palm OS, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-07-24
- Visual Basic / Word System Error!!
- Hi all,A XPProSP2, MS05-*** patched, Office2K3 user is getting a "System Error &H80004005 (-2147467259). Unspecified Error" error by VB when he tries to open up a .doc that was made in VB.Another error that comes with it is the "Automation Error. Unspecified Error." error.The error comes up when he click...
- Tags: honu95, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Word, software, System Error
- Q&A 2005-02-12
- Printing problems with Vista
- When trying to print from the internet, I get an error message. I have to convert it to Adobe and print it that way. Anyone else have this problem or know a solution?error messageCan you give a description of the error message that you getError MessageIt is an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, megan.sackett@..., error message, printing
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Symbol Technologies Helps Unplug the Wires at Monash Medical Centre
- The Monash Medical Centre in Victoria, Australia is a major teaching, research and referral hospital. Patient information is usually recorded manually on a chart, which is kept at the end of the patient's bed. This manual process is error-prone, and could result in inaccurate patient care, such as administering the...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Symbol Technologies Inc., Technology, Patient Information, Wireless
- Case studies
- Server Error
- Server ErrorThe following error occurred:[code=SERVER_RESPONSE_RESET] The server response could not be read because of an error. Contact your system administrator. Hey smart people...OK. I'm going to slit my wrists now as I'm tired of this error.I'm on a network, with an Apache server...Our internet keeps on giving this error.Please. Help....
- Tags: Servers, OPEN SOURCE, xzileoutcast@..., server, Server Error
- Discussion threads 2007-06-13
- My Medications List (zip)
- My Medications List helps you keep track of your medicines, total your medication costs by month, quarter and year along with having plenty of room for jotting down important notes about each of your medications such as No Alcohol or Take with food. It also has an area for general...
- Tags: Medication, Tools & Techniques, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-04-12
- Script error
- Occasionally when I try to print an email from Microsoft Outlook I get an error messsage that says:Internet explorer script error An error has occured in thr script on this page Line: 1344 Char: 1 Error: Unspecified error Code: 0 URL: res//C:Windowssystem32shdoclc.dll/preview.dlgDo you want to continue running scripts on this...
- Tags: terric@...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
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