Creating Rapid and Innovative Improvements Outside of the Capital Budget

We are off to the National Patient Safety Foundation meeting tomorrow! My colleague, Susan Stinson will be presenting with Aurora Health Care and ISMP on Thursday morning at 10am. The session title is Creating Rapid and Innovative Improvements Outside of the Capital Budget. For anyone interested in signing up last minute, bellow is a little bit about the presentation:

Identifying the impact of the medication distribution systems in the last 100 feet to the patient bedside can be daunting. Hospitals are being asked to make changes in their processes to help drive results and trying to implement improvements at low or no cost is crucial, particularly in these economic times.

Representatives from Aurora Health Care of Wisconsin, the Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and AmerisourceBergen are presenting at the National Patient Safety Foundation’s 2009 Patient Safety Congress on May 21^st on “Creating Rapid & Innovative Improvements Outside of the Capital Budget.” The focus will be on making those process improvements in order to optimize technology investments especially in the “last 100 feet” when medications are administered and documented.

A representative from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) will discuss how the most harmful medication errors occur mainly in the administration of the drug – after dispensing. ISMP is a leader in educating the healthcare community in safe medication processes.

Hope to see you there! If not, I will be twittering live at the event to share the key learnings with my tweeple!

Claire