MSOS News

Post date: 3 weeks 2 days ago

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kuByH0aqRk2vcgNHFQiU8w

Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• Near Miss Reporting Leads to a Positive Change
Shannon Manzi, PharmD, BCPPS, FPPA
Director, Safety & Quality, Department of Pharmacy
Faculty, Applied Informatics, Computational Health Informatics Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Boston Children’s Hospital

• Making Smarter Alerts for “Smart” Infusion Pumps
Stephen Andrews, PharmD, BCPS, CPPS
Drug Information Specialist
University of Utah Health

Post date: 1 month 1 week ago

This week’s featured newsletter article is the first in a two-part series on how controlled substance drug diversion is a threat to patient safety, and ways to implement a proactive approach to prevention: https://www.ismp.org/node/64547

Post date: 2 months 2 weeks ago

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Loxe9LQVSXqXesV-X9yfGA

Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• Baclofen accumulation in acute kidney injury
Jacqueline Hartford, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Medication Safety Officer, Sinai Hospital-Grace Medical Center-Northwest Hospital- Levindale, Lifebridge Health

•Updating the look- and sound-alike institutional list
Mona Hammam, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FISMP, Medication Safety Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

•Closing the loop: Standardizing medication event feedback
Heather Ellis, PharmD, Medication Safety Coordinator, AdventHealth

Post date: 2 months 2 weeks ago

This week’s free newsletter article describes how a series of latent and active failures involving IV bags in an automated dispensing cabinet perfectly aligned to allow a preventable adverse event to reach a patient: https://www.ismp.org/node/57727

The mission of the Medication Safety Officers Society (MSOS) is to advance and encourage excellence in safe medication use by providing communication, leadership, direction, and education among its members.