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FEATURED CONTENT
ASHP Midyear 2025 Poster
Colunga et al. Impact of Smart Pump Integration with Electronic Medical Records on Clinicians’ Bedside Productivity within a Large Healthcare System (4-055)
- DERS, smart pump-EMR integration, and auto-programming were associated with notable reductions in programming steps to infusion, time to infusion initiation, and time to resolve alerts.
- By streamlining manual workflows, these technologies may reduce medication errors, decrease time spent on error correction within total infusions, and ease clinician's physical/cognitive burdens to enhance productivity, reduce burnout, and give time back to nurses.
ASHP Midyear 2025 Poster
Afaq et al. Impact of Smart Pump Integration with Electronic Medical Records on Safety Events and Programming Compliance at a Large Healthcare System (4-054)
- Smart pump-EMR integration and auto-programming demonstrated a significant reduction in patient safety alerts, aligning with recommendations from ISMP and ASHP.
- Although these findings suggest benefits, opportunities remain for consistent use across all care areas and shift types.
- QI and root-cause analyses may help to further improve auto-programming compliance and inform optimization of drug libraries and medications qualified for auto-programming, all of which aim to enhance patient safety.
ASHP Midyear Post 2025
Mourad et al. Smart Pump Optimization Survey: Current Status and Potential for AI-Based Solutions (4-050)
- This poster reports on a survey regarding smart pump drug library (DL) maintenance and continuous quality improvement (CQI) practices. Findings reveal significant gaps, including lack of frameworks, expertise, and resources for CQI review.
- The survey highlights strong interest (78% of respondents) in an AI-based solution to optimize CQI practices, reduce medication errors, enhance patient safety, and minimize alert fatigue.
Webinar - Enhancing Oncology Safety: Strategies for Developing Robust IV Pump Drug Libraries
Emily Messing, PharmD, BCPS, CPPS
This webinar reviews the essential components and terminology of oncology IV pump drug libraries, explains the common challenges encountered in the development of IV pump drug libraries in the oncology setting, describes best practices and evidence-based techniques in the creation and maintenance of oncology IV pump drug libraries to improve patient safety, and evaluates the effectiveness of current drug library protocols and use data-driven insights to recommend improvements.
FEATURED TOPIC: INTEROPERABILITY
Smart Pump Electronic Health Record Interoperability: It's a Two-Way Street
Animated demonstration of smart pump electronic health record interoperability.
FEATURED PODCAST
AI in Healthcare - Current State and Future Direction
Muhammad Mamdani, MPH, MA, PharmD, Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Unity Health Toronto; Director of the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Centre for Artificial Intelligence Education and Research in Medicine (T-CAIREM)
Dr. Mamdani will be defining and discussing AI in healthcare and how his team bridges advanced analytics including machine learning with clinical and management decision making to improve patient outcomes and hospital efficiency.
FEATURED EDUCATION & RESOURCES
Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, 9th Edition
Journal of Infusion Nursing Resource
CALL FOR PROPOSAL
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