IHA case studies

    AHA Webinars

    Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

    May 11th, 2017
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    Lean Six Sigma Reduces Risk of Medication Errors Due to Medical Dispense Overrides by 53% in a Critical Access Hospital

    Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Implementation and Optimization of Bar Code Medication Administration

    Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Reduce Medication Errors Through the Implementation of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Medication Bar Coding and Smart Pump Technology

    After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

    March 12th, 2013
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    Improving Patient Safety Through Timely and Accurate Medication Reconciliation

    The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

    March 12th, 2013
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    Improving Patient Safety -- Newborn Medication Administration

    At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

    June 1st, 2012
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