Recently I’ve heard of hospitals having problems with barcodes on pre-mixed IV bags. The problem isn’t related to the legibility or quality of the barcodes, but rather the location and/or the information contained within the barcode itself.
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Month: October 2010
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RxCalc 1.2 ready for download – want a free copy?
RxCalc 1.2 has been approved by the powers to be at Apple and is now available for download in the iTunes store. For those of you that don’t know about RxCalc, it is a pharmacokinetics calculator made by Apple Core Labs specifically designed to handle aminoglycoside and vancomycin kinetics, i.e. new starts and adjustments. I’ve been intimately involved with the development of RxCalc, and you can read more about what drove the idea and the development of it here if you’re interested.
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Top blog posts and searches from last week (40)
I always find it interesting to see what brings people to my website and what they decided to read once they get here.
Most read posts over the past 7 days:
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy (June 18,2009 – Alaris Smartpumps)
- Automated unit-dose packagers for acute care pharmacy
- Best iPhone / iPod Touch Applications for Pharmacists
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy – Baxa Repeater Pump
- RFID still a solid alternative to barcoding
- Is the 30-minute rule for medication administration good or bad?
- Moving storage around in the “cloudâ€
- Quick update: Pharmacy iPad use
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy – Practice Fusion EMR
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy (September 10, 2009 – The Capsule Machine)
Top related searchterm phrases used over the past 7 days:
- “black cloudâ€
- “alaris pictureâ€
- “alaris pumpâ€
- “mansonella perstansâ€
- “transparencyâ€
- “sanyo multi-dose medicine packagingâ€
- “medication carouselâ€
- “barcode bcma tabletâ€
- “best free pharmacy ipad appsâ€
- “medication bar code scannerâ€
I’m intrigued by the searchterms that show up in my analytics because they make me think about what’s going on in healthcare for people to be searching for a particular term. For example, if I were to continue down the list for last week you would see a lot of phrases that include the word “robotâ€, “kiosksâ€, “alaris†and “bcmaâ€. Interesting, very interesting.
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The Skyscape iPad giveaway
I thought you might like to know that Skyscape is giving away 10 iPads as part of a promotion celebrating October 10, 2010, you know 10/10/10. All you have to do is spend $75 or more by 10/27/2010 and you’re automatically entered into the drawing.
Here’s the email I received:
Skyscape makes medical reference material designed for healthcare professionals. Most references are available for all the popular mobile platforms like the iOS, Android OS and the BlackBerry. You can take a peek at their list of drug information resources here. I don’t really use Skyscape references, but some of the items that jumped out at me included AHFS Drug Information, The Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide and iFacts: Drug Interaction Facts. Skyscape offers quite a selection.
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“What’d I miss?” – Week of October 3, 2010
As usual there were a lot of things that happened during the week, and not all of it was pharmacy or technology related. Here’s a quick look at some of the stuff I found interesting.
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Impressive offerings in the new edition of ACI eJournal
The third issue of the eJournal Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) is available online and it’s packed with some pretty interesting stuff. Even though CPOE and CDS have been topics for discussion for quite sometime, they’ve somehow managed to fly under the radar for the most part.
Here’s some stuff on CPOE and CDS in the third edition of ACI that caught my eye:
- Comparing the Effectiveness of Computerized Adverse Drug Event Monitoring Systems to Enhance Clinical Decision Support for Hospitalized Patients
- Best Practices in Clinical Decision Support (The Case of Preventive Care Reminders)
- Decision Support Alerts for Medication Ordering in a Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) System (A systematic approach to decrease alerts)
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Top blog posts and searches from last week (39)
I always find it interesting to see what brings people to my website and what they decided to read once they get here.
Most read posts over the past 7 days:
- Automated unit-dose packagers for acute care pharmacy
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy (June 18,2009 – Alaris Smartpumps)
- Best iPhone / iPod Touch Applications for Pharmacists
- A new laptop plus the cloud equals bliss
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy – Baxa Repeater Pump
- Pediatric labels for bar code medication administration (BCMA)
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy (September 10, 2009 – The Capsule Machine)
- Cool Technology for Pharmacy – The Pill Timer
- Quick update: Pharmacy iPad use
- Moving storage around in the “cloudâ€
Top searchterm phrases used over the past 7 days:
- “mansonella perstansâ€
- “jaansunâ€
- “alaris pictureâ€
- “transparencyâ€
- “black cloudâ€
- “ipad pharmacyâ€
- “ipad and practice fusionâ€
- “dell xt2â€
- “jerry fahrniâ€
- “baxa repeater pumpâ€