Best of 2021: (OVER)DOSE - How Can We Prevent Medication Errors and Patient Harm?
This is a short documentary about medication-related patient safety. The documentary explores and offers an overview of the current challenges and technical solutions related to medication safety to raise awareness about the need to further improve medication-related patient safety.\nUnsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems across the world. Globally, the cost associated with medication errors has been estimated at $42 billion USD annually. Errors can occur at different stages of the medication use process.\nMore than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS upwards of \xa398 million and more than 1700 lives every year, indicate national estimates, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.\n\nThe documentary premiered on 29 June 2021.\nWatch the documentary and full interviews with the speakers: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/overdose-documentary\nLearn more about Better Meds: https://meds.better.care/\nSpeakers in the movie and this episode:\n\n\nDavid W. Bates, Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Information Systems, Patient Safety Expert and Harvard MD (Clinical & Research Perspective)\n\n\nProfessor John Horn, PharmD, University of Washington School of Pharmacy, coauthor of \u201cThe Top 100 Drug Interactions\u201d; A Guide to Patient Management\u201d\n\n\nMartina Viduka, Practicing Nurse, Co-Founder of Advosense\n\n\nDavid Kliff, author and publisher of the Diabetic Investor eNewsletter, former investment advisor, and as a person living with diabetes (Patient Perspective)\n\n\nDuncan Cripps, Electronic Prescribing and Medication Management Lead at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (Pharmacist Perspective)\n\n\nRoni Shiloh, CEO of Seegnal, MD degree, specialized in Psychiatry (CDS provider and doctor perspective)\n\n\nHicham Naim, Global Head Integrated & Personalized Patient Care Program, Digital Advisory Board at Takeda (Pharma Perspective)\n\n\nMarinka \u017ditnik, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (Research perspective\n\n\nLea Dias, Clinical Pharmacist, Founder and CEO of Quaefacta\n\n\nAbdulelah Alhawsawi, Ex - founding Director-General of the Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC)\n\n\nRoi Shternin, Founder of the patient-led Israeli society for Dysautonomia (Patient perspective).