Nursing Home Medication Errors

Medication errors are an underestimated cause of 98,000 healthcare deaths each year. Electronic medical records with electronic drug regimen review prevent nursing home medication errors occurring when clinicians adjust medications without a current medication list or based on incomplete, outdated or inaccurate patient information. One of the most important physician roles in nursing homes is to perform drug regimen review to monitor for medication errors and drug interactions between diseases, symptoms and other drugs. Physicians reduce nursing home medication errors through clear nursing home software documentation and electronic medical records e-prescribing. Their role enhanced by readily available medical references in electronic medical records. PAR 3 EMR software reduces nursing home medication errors and legal liability by enlisting ongoing clinician participation in the medication use process at the point of care. Using the electronic medical record to reduce nursing home medication errors with continuous electronic drug regimen review reconciles medication electronically as an innovative approach to reduce nursing home medication errors.

Residents take an average eight medications per month and despite excellent care provided to them, there is an estimated one adverse drug event per patient per day. One avoidable adverse drug related event is estimated to occur per resident per day at an annual healthcare cost of billions. Treating avoidable events retroactively cost billions of healthcare dollars annually. Our innovative PAR 3 nursing home EMR software uses patent pending electronic drug regimen review to reduce medication errors and improve resident care.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices advocates EMR use to computerize the medication process. Reduce nurse and clinician time verifying information for unusual drug doses (e.g., narcotics, insulin). PAR 3 EMR software checks for potentially harmful medication errors in nursing homes and alerts staff to

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