PATIENT SAFETY SOLUTION

“Five potentially serious medication errors were averted over an 18-month period in a test at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in the University of Michigan Health System by using the ValiMed technology.”

"Errors in compounding these types of medications are rare. However, when they occur they can have a significant negative impact on patients and staff”

"We know from having this technology in place we've deterred five errors that might have happened. I really believe having technology like this needs to be the standard around the country" *

PROBLEM

Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year in the United States. On average, there is at least one medication error per hospital patient per day and studies indicate that 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in US hospitals.

Many of the highest risk medications (heparin, insulin, morphine...) are delivered by IV infusion and are associated with 54% of potential adverse drug events (ADEs), 56% of medication errors, and 61% of the serious and life-threatening errors. 9 of every 100 IV doses that require compounding in the hospital pharmacy contain one or more errors when they are delivered to the nurse.

SOLUTION

The ValiMed Patient Safety Solution provides validation of IV admixtures (including high alert medications) at the time of compounding.

ValiMed provides the assurance that medications have been prepared accurately. This eliminates undetected errors in medication selection, the manufacturing of admixtures, inadvertent substitution, purposeful counterfeiting or the mislabeling of the medication, container or package.

* Quote from Jim Stevenson, associate dean of Clinical Sciences at the University of Michigan (U-M) College of Pharmacy and Director of Pharmacy Services at the U-M Health System