# Medication Errors * **Definition:** Mistakes in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication that can lead to patient harm. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Medication Errors ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Medication Errors**, for healthcare technology leaders * 1.9K news items are in the system for this topic * Posts have been filtered for tech and healthcare-related keywords | Date | Title | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5/28/2025 | [**Critical Role of Transitions of Care in Medicare Advantage Success - HIT Consultant**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/05/28/critical-role-of-transitions-of-care-in-medicare-advantage-success/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 5/27/2025 | [**Denials Rose In 2024 As Insurers Asked For More Info, Medical Necessity**](https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/denials-rose-in-2024-as-insurers-asked-for-more-info-medical-necessity/) | [[KFF Health News]] | | 5/19/2025 | [**HIMSS CIO Connect brings support through shared knowledge - Healthcare Finance News**](https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/video/himss-cio-connect-brings-support-through-shared-knowledge) | [[Healthcare Finance]] | | 4/29/2025 | [**Winners And Losers Of Q4: Evolent Health (NYSE:EVH) Vs The Rest Of The Healthcare ...**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/winners-losers-q4-evolent-health-090634170.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 4/3/2025 | [**Why Nurse Leaders Deserve a Seat at the AI Table - HIT Consultant**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/04/03/why-nurse-leaders-deserve-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 4/3/2025 | [**Cedars-Sinai unveils drug safety resource**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/cedars-sinai-unveils-drug-safety-resource/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 4/1/2025 | [**The Key to Solving Medication Errors is At The Intersection of Technology and Standards**](https://medcitynews.com/2025/04/the-key-to-solving-medication-errors-is-at-the-intersection-of-technology-and-standards/) | [[MedCity News]] | | 2/26/2025 | [**HIMSS25: FDB to Spotlight Customer Success Stories and Innovative Drug Knowledge Solutions**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/himss25-fdb-to-spotlight-customer-success-stories-and-innovative-drug-knowledge-solutions-302385976.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 2/7/2025 | [**German Startup Avelios Medical Raises $31.1M for Hospital Information Systems Platform**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/02/07/german-startup-avelios-medical-raises-31-1m-for-hospital-information-systems-platform/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 1/10/2025 | [**Understaffing at HCA Mission led to harmful medication errors: Report**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/understaffing-at-hca-mission-led-to-harmful-medication-errors-report.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 12/30/2024 | [**The Health IT Needed to Implement Harris' Medicare Home Care Proposal - HIT Consultant**](https://hitconsultant.net/2024/12/30/the-health-it-needed-to-implement-harris-medicare-home-care-proposal/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 12/27/2024 | [**The Health IT Needed to Implement Harris' Medicare Home Care Proposal**](https://hitconsultant.net/2024/12/27/the-health-it-needed-to-implement-harris-medicare-home-care-proposal/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 12/21/2024 | [**Health IT Product News Report December 2024**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/health-it-product-news-report-december-2024/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 12/16/2024 | [**ePrescribing Market Insights 2024-2029: Rising Adoption of Cloud-Based Digital Record ...**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eprescribing-market-insights-2024-2029-094600344.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 12/16/2024 | [**GCC Pharmaceutical Market Opportunity & Clinical Trials Outlook Report 2030 - A More Than US$12 Billion Market Opportunity By 2030 - ResearchAndMarkets.com**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241216571019/en/GCC-Pharmaceutical-Market-Opportunity-Clinical-Trials-Outlook-Report-2030---A-More-Than-US12-Billion-Market-Opportunity-By-2030---ResearchAndMarkets.com/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | | 12/13/2024 | [**AI Innovations in Healthcare Technology - by David Hirschfeld - Dec, 2024 - Medium**](https://medium.com/@dmhirschfeld/ai-innovations-in-healthcare-technology-6873f6cf1dfc) | [[Medium]] | | 12/4/2024 | [**AI Tops ECRI's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025**](https://hitconsultant.net/2024/12/04/ai-tops-ecris-top-10-health-technology-hazards-for-2025/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 11/19/2024 | [**ISMP Announces 27th Annual Cheers Award Recipients**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ismp-announces-27th-annual-cheers-award-recipients-302310171.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 9/1/2024 | [**AI / Machine Learning - This Week Health**](https://thisweekhealth.com/news2/ai-machine-learning/page/2/) | thisweekhealth.com | | 8/7/2024 | [**Healthcare Quality Management Market to Surpass USD 10.22 Billion by 2032 Driven ... - WhaTech**](https://www.whatech.com/og/markets-research/medical/864040-healthcare-quality-management-market-to-surpass-usd-10-22-billion-by-2032-driven-by-increasing-demand-for-enhanced-healthcare-services.html) | whatech.com | | 8/2/2024 | [**Automated Drug Kiosk Industry Analysis: Market Dynamics, Technological Advancements ...**](https://www.whatech.com/og/markets-research/medical/862170-automated-drug-kiosk-industry-analysis-market-dynamics-technological-advancements-economic-impact-consumer-adoption-pharmacy-operations-regulatory-compliance-and-future-outlook.html) | whatech.com | | 7/26/2024 | [**Global E-Prescription Solutions Market is Expected to Grow at a CAGR of 23.4% over the ...**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-e-prescription-solutions-market-130000619.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 7/9/2024 | [**When Hospital Cyberattacks Compromise Care, Not Just Data**](https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/health-brief-hospital-cyberattacks-ascension-health-care/) | [[KFF Health News]] | | 7/9/2024 | [**Healthcare Quality Management Market Size Worth US$ 10.22 Billion By 2032, Boosted by Raising Healthcare Expenditure Across the World - Research by SNS Insider**](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/07/09/2910643/0/en/Healthcare-Quality-Management-Market-Size-Worth-US-10-22-Billion-By-2032-Boosted-by-Raising-Healthcare-Expenditure-Across-the-World-Research-by-SNS-Insider.html) | [[Globe Newswire]] | | 6/13/2024 | [**Study shows that clinical decision support software can prevent 95% of medication errors in the operating room**](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-clinical-decision-software-medication-errors.html) | [[MedicalXpress]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention**: Defines medication errors and works to prevent them. - **ECRI**: A non-profit organization focused on improving healthcare quality and safety, emphasizing the importance of reducing medication errors. - **Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)**: A leading organization in medication safety, advocating for changes in clinical practice and public policy to prevent medication errors. - **MedAware**: An AI-powered medication safety monitoring platform that enhances real-time risk monitoring for acute care patients. - **Avelios Medical**: A company focused on enhancing hospital workflows through modular microservices and structured data to reduce medication errors. - **MedAdvisor Solutions**: A platform simplifying medication management and enhancing patient engagement. - **Cumberland Pharmaceuticals**: A pharmaceutical company known for its intravenous formulations aimed at preventing medication errors. - **AI Tools**: Technological solutions that assist pharmacists in streamlining workflows, reducing medication errors, and enhancing patient safety. - **University of Washington School of Medicine**: Conducted a study on an AI-powered wearable camera system that detects medication errors with high accuracy. - **First Databank (FDB)**: Provides medication decision support tools to improve clinician workflows and reduce medication errors. - **Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN)**: Developing the Med Rx Hub platform to centralize medication information and improve patient safety. - **Ballad Health**: A healthcare organization implementing MedAware's platform to improve patient safety and medication management. - **Cedars-Sinai**: A healthcare institution that launched the OnSIDES database to study adverse medication events. - **Bluesight**: A provider of Medication Intelligence solutions focused on improving medication safety and operational efficiency. - **Orion Innovations**: A startup that developed the MedLite ID device to help nurses identify medication infusion lines more efficiently, reducing medication errors. - **Intelliguard**: A leader in medication management systems, specializing in RFID-enabled solutions to enhance medication safety. - **Leapfrog Group**: An organization that evaluates hospital safety metrics, including medication error prevention through computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems. - **Surescripts**: A leading e-prescribing network in the U.S. that enhances medication safety and efficiency. - **ScriptPro**: A provider of automated pharmacy solutions, including pill dispensing systems that minimize human error. - **Codonics**: Provider of the Safe Label System, which standardizes syringe labeling to reduce medication errors in operating rooms. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Mindsprint and MedAdvisor Solutions**: Collaborating to develop a next-generation patient engagement platform aimed at improving medication adherence. - **HealthVerity and Premier, Inc.**: Collaboration to enhance healthcare data access for research purposes, improving medication safety. - **NYC Health + Hospitals and Omnicell**: Collaboration to implement a multimillion-dollar upgrade to medication management systems, enhancing patient safety and efficiency. - **Google and Northwestern Medicine**: Collaborated to develop an AI system that enhances diagnostic accuracy, indirectly contributing to reducing medication errors through improved patient care. - **Ballad Health and MedAware**: Ballad Health has partnered with MedAware to utilize its AI platform within their pharmacy workflow, significantly improving medication safety. - **Bizmatics and FDB**: Collaboration to enhance the PrognoCIS EHR with comprehensive drug information to improve clinical decision-making and patient safety. - **Intelliguard and Codonics**: A strategic partnership to integrate RFID-enabled medication management solutions with Codonics' Safe Label System, enhancing medication safety in operating rooms. - **Scriptology and RxLive**: Acquisition aimed at enhancing medication management solutions and expanding telehealth capabilities. - **CareCloud and DrFirst**: Expanded partnership to include RxInform functionality, aimed at improving medication adherence and reducing costs for patients. - **Kettering Health and Story Health**: Partnered to enhance patient care through personalized virtual care focusing on medication management. - **Augmedix and HCA Healthcare**: Conducted a pilot program demonstrating high patient consent rates for AI in medical documentation. - **Ministry of Health in Spain and Wolters Kluwer**: Renewed agreement for UpToDate, a clinical decision support tool aimed at reducing variability in healthcare. - **ECRI and The Just Culture Company**: Acquisition aimed at fostering a culture of safety in healthcare to reduce preventable patient harm. - **Alfred Health and Oracle Health**: Implemented Oracle's Oncology EHR solution to enhance cancer care and medication management. - **NEC Corporation and Aetion**: Collaboration to enhance drug development using real-world evidence technology. - **Bluesight and Sectyr**: Bluesight's acquisition of Sectyr aims to enhance compliance tools for healthcare organizations, particularly in relation to the 340B Drug Pricing Program. - **TeamHealth**: Collaborates to enhance communication and clinical outcomes across the healthcare continuum, focusing on patient-centered care. - **Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare and TruDoc Healthcare**: Partnered to enhance patient experiences through innovative 'Hospital at Home' services. - **Ixcela and Roper St. Francis Healthcare**: Collaborated to launch a virtual clinic supporting cancer patients with personalized nutritional therapy. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **NCPDP Sig Builder**: Introduced to enhance prescription accuracy and reduce annual medication errors. - **Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm**: Medication Without Harm, Detail: Launched by WHO to reduce medication-related harm by 50%. - **Automatic Pill Dispensing Systems**: Increasingly adopted in healthcare settings to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize medication errors. - **Pharmacy Automation**: Increasing adoption of pharmacy automation solutions to reduce medication errors and improve operational efficiency. - **E-Prescribing Solutions**: Digitizes the prescription process, enhancing efficiency and reducing medication errors compared to traditional methods. - **Automated Compounding Devices**: Technologies aimed at reducing medication errors and enhancing patient safety through advanced automation in medication preparation. - **AI in Medication Management**: AI technologies are being integrated into medication management systems to reduce errors and enhance patient safety. - **Med Rx Hub**: A platform by MiHIN aimed at creating a centralized source of medication information to enhance patient safety. - **Cloud-based Medication Management**: NYC Health + Hospitals is implementing Omnicell's cloud-based technology to automate pharmacy processes and minimize medication errors. - **Clinical Decision Support Systems**: Software that can prevent up to 95% of medication errors in surgical settings by providing real-time alerts and support to clinicians. - **MedLite ID Device**: A device designed to help nurses quickly and accurately identify medication lines, significantly reducing the time and mental effort required, thus minimizing errors. - **AI in Medication Safety**: The use of AI platforms like MedAware is transforming medication safety monitoring, allowing for proactive interventions in patient care. - **AI-Powered Wearable Camera**: Developed by the University of Washington, this system identifies medication errors during drug administration with a 99.6% accuracy rate. - **OnSIDES Database**: A publicly accessible database aimed at studying adverse medication events and improving drug safety. - **Medication Adherence Technologies**: Mobile applications and smart medication adherence products (MAPs) are being utilized to improve patient engagement and adherence. - **E-Prescribing**: Increased to 92% of prescribers using this technology, improving patient care through real-time access to information. - **Pill Count Solution**: An AI-driven prescription counting solution by Outcomes that improves accuracy by over 8% and enhances pharmacy efficiency. - **3D Printing in Pharmaceuticals**: Utilized for creating personalized drug formulations that minimize human error. - **Smart Packaging Solutions**: Using RFID and IoT technologies to improve medication compliance and integrity. - **E-Prescribing Growth**: The e-prescribing market is projected to grow significantly, driven by regulatory mandates and the need for efficient medication management. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Medication Errors**: Medical errors remain a critical issue, with systemic failures contributing to patient harm rather than individual mistakes. - **Medication Errors in Older Adults**: A study found that two-thirds of older adults experience medication errors during hospital stays, particularly during transitions between care settings. - **Prevalence of Medication Errors**: Medication errors affect at least 1.5 million people annually, highlighting the urgent need for improved safety measures. - **Staffing Shortages**: Chronic pharmacy staffing shortages leading to increased medication errors, as seen in Mission Hospital. - **High Turnover Rates**: Staffing shortages and high demands on nurses and clinicians increase the risk of medication errors. - **Health Literacy Issues**: Patients with low health literacy are at a higher risk of misinterpreting medication instructions, leading to errors. - **Fragmented Healthcare Systems**: Challenges in medication reconciliation due to incomplete medication lists for patients. - **Cybersecurity Risks**: Cyberattacks can lead to medication errors and compromised patient care due to disrupted access to health records. - **Second Victim Phenomenon**: Healthcare professionals experience emotional distress after medication errors, highlighting the need for supportive organizational structures. - **Prescription Abandonment**: Up to 25% of new prescriptions are never filled, leading to significant costs in avoidable hospitalizations. - **Interoperability Issues**: Current systems often lack comprehensive medication histories due to poor integration between electronic health records and pharmacy systems. - **Nurse Burnout**: Linked to increased medication errors and decreased patient safety, highlighting the need for systemic interventions to address workplace stressors. - **Cybersecurity Threats**: Cyberattacks on healthcare facilities can lead to significant medication errors and lapses in patient care, raising concerns about the safety of healthcare IT systems. - **Data Privacy and Security**: Concerns regarding data breaches in AI applications within healthcare, particularly related to medication errors. - **Regulatory Compliance**: Challenges in maintaining compliance with evolving regulations can hinder the implementation of effective medication management solutions. - **Technical Issues with E-Prescribing**: While e-prescribing enhances safety, it may face technical challenges that require robust support to prevent disruptions in patient care. - **Staffing Pressures**: Pharmacy operations face staffing shortages, necessitating automation solutions to maintain safety and efficiency in medication management. - **Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)**: Approximately 275,000 American lives are lost annually due to ADEs, highlighting the need for improved surveillance and reporting systems. ## Related Topics [[Medical Errors]]; [[Medication Management]]