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The Quality Rounds panel included William Churchill, Ramin Khorasani, Marcy Carty and Denise Goldsmith.
In the Department of Pharmacy Services, the implementation of new IV robotic technology improves medication safety, efficiency and research. In the Department of Radiology, the Alert Notification of Critical Radiology Results (ANCR) ensures physicians quickly and reliably receive critical results through an automated notification and tracking system. And at the inpatient level, a new discharge documentation module set to be implemented in the late fall will lead to improvements in patient safety at discharge.
During this month’s Quality Rounds presentation “Using Technology to Improve Patient Safety at BWH,” BWH recognized Patient Safety Awareness Week and highlighted some of the many efforts taking place at the hospital to ensure patient safety.
Staff who attended or tuned in via webcast to the March 2 presentation heard from Bill Churchill, MS, RPh, chief of service for the Department of Pharmacy, as he explained how the department introduced three robots that are currently preparing more than 350,000 IV doses annually, reducing human error by using bar code verification and optical scanning technology as well as precisely measuring each dose by weight using specific gravity methodology.
Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, vice chair of the Department of Radiology and director of the Center for Evidence-Based Imaging, detailed how a multi-level notification system alerts physicians of critical radiology tests and allows acknowledgement and tracking of the alerts to ensure patient safety.
Marcy Carty, MD, MPH, director of Clinical Operations Improvement, and Denise Goldsmith, MPH, MS, RN, executive director of Informatics for Nursing and Patient Care Services, presented a soon-to-be-released web-based discharge module that will, among other things, significantly improve the medication reconciliation process and the instructions BWH provides its patients at discharge.
In addition, the BWH Patient Safety Team celebrated National Patient Safety Awareness Week March 6–12 with the publication of the March issue of Safety Matters, which features two serious reportable events (SREs) that took place at BWH.
View BWH Quality Rounds online at: BWHPikeNotes.org/Employee_Resources/EdTechVideoLibrary/default.aspx