The Hy-Vee Pharmacy at 410 N. Ankeny Blvd. in Ankeny, Iowa. (Photo via Google Earth) An Ankeny pharmacy has been fined $1,000 for dispensing the wrong medication to a customer and then failing to ...

The family says Rosezena Jackson's throat swelled so much that doctors were barely able to intubate her when she arrived at the hospital. (Photo: Craig Family){p}{/p} WASHINGTON (7News) — When 74-year ...

An Iowa pharmacy tech fired for medication-dispensing errors is suing her former employer. (Photo via Getty Images) An Iowa pharmacy tech fired for medication-dispensing errors is suing her former ...

Each year, millions of patients are affected by medication errors, resulting in tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs. 1 To better manage common dispensing errors, many ...

DALLAS (CBS11 I-TEAM) – The CBS 11 I-Team has learned there are more than 2.3 million prescription drug dispensing errors made every year in pharmacies across the United States. Lake Towakoni resident ...

Addressing the continually changing needs of the healthcare industry, the system integrates Omnicell's new SafetyMed bedside point-of-care software with a smart mobile cart, allowing healthcare ...

A search of our health system's electronic quality variance reporting system from 2006 through 2007 revealed no documented cases similar to the five reported in 2008. To our knowledge, none of these ...

Electronic medical records (EMRs) can play an important role in the reduction of medication errors, but they should not be considered the be-all, end-all solution. Healthcare organizations, in fact, ...

After years of trying to get pregnant, followed by a difficult pregnancy, Maria Rique Gamboa and her husband met their miracle son, Daniel, in late 2016. Due to health concerns, Daniel was delivered ...

Lake Towakoni resident Linda Lilley thought she was taking her pain medication Gabapentin, but she says her bottle contained Gemfibrozil- a cholesterol medication which looked very similar to ...

Purpose. Five cases of sound-alike, look-alike, neonatal medication-dispensing errors and their resolution are reviewed. Summary. In 2008, there were five cases in which look-alike or sound-alike ...