Upstate Hospital Tackles Medication Errors

Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) is targeting medication errors by combining an employee-owned culture of safety with high-tech innovations such as computerized physician order entry, robotic pharmacies and barcoded medicine reconciliation at the patient’s bedside. GHS encourages the reporting of all medication-related events, including so-called near misses, to better understand and eliminate the situations that give rise to those events. National studies show that too many employees fail to report near misses because they do not view these as errors.