OLIVER, B.C. – South Okanagan General Hospital has deployed MedHx, DrFirst’s electronic patient medication history service, integrated within the hospital’s Meditech Enterprise Health Record (EHR).
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) is investing $3 million in Pharmapod – a medication error reporting platform that is already playing a vital role in improving patient safety and supporting pharmacists across the globe in tracking and reducing medication errors.
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TORONTO – Canadians with chronic conditions are experiencing medication errors and undergoing unnecessary repeat procedures according to a national survey commissioned by Orion Health.
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MONTREAL – Facing a shortage of hospital personnel willing to respond to Code White violent incidents involving patients and visitors at the McGill University Health Centre, the MUHC launched an internal recruitment campaign.
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TORONTO – A new report by Health Quality Ontario focuses on 29 Ontario hospitals who are participating in an international quality improvement program for surgery. Hospitals in Ontario performed just as well or better than their international peers on key metrics before, during and after surgery. Nearly 700 other hospitals around the world participate in this program.
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) and Pharmapod Canada have been chosen by the Ontario College of Pharmacists to implement a medication incident reporting platform in Ontario which will improve patient safety, reduce errors and help identify root causes of medication incidents.
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HAMILTON, Ont. – Recently, Canada Safe Imaging (CSI) has joined forces with two respected organizations with extensive expertise in radiation safety, the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada (RSIC) and the Centre d’Expertise Clinique en Radioprotection (CECR) to offer a new and free service, respectively in English and French, to answer concerns from the general public and health professionals related to radiation safety.
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TORONTO – Doctors ordered fewer unnecessary cardiology tests when they watched an educational video and received monthly feedback reports, according to a new randomized study in Ontario and the United States.
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MONTREAL – A woman in her 60s who had a hysterectomy at a Montreal hospital discovered two months later that a 30-centimetre metal plate had been left in her abdomen. That was after suffering weeks of pain.
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TORONTO – Community pharmacies in Ontario will be required to report medication errors to an independent third party, through a phased-in program that starts this fall.
The Ontario College of Pharmacists approved the program at its June 12 council meeting. It will apply to all community pharmacies in the province and include mandatory and anonymous “medication incident” reporting to a third party.
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