Rx Safety Advisor®
A Business Suite for Medication Safety
Benefits
Medication errors occur each year that cause death, illness, discomfort, medication complication and loss of customer confidence. RxSafety Advisor — Standard's network-based application is designed to:
- Reduce risk for dosing and look-alike sound-alike dispensing errors.
- Directly or indirectly support requirements of state quality assurance programs to reduce medication errors for error prone drug pairs.
- Enhance patient safety.
- Support medication safety best practices identified in the Institute for Safe Medical Practices Community Pharmacy Self-Assessment.
RxSafety Advisor is an exciting, innovative business solution to manage medication safety. It checks for preventable mistakes during the dispensing process — and is specifically designed to help you:
- Monitor Prescription Dispensing: Point-of-dispensing alerts to pharmacist and data entry personnel.
- Manage Patient and Medication Safety: Supports quality assurance programs and safe medication practices.
- Mitigate Risk Associated with Prescription Errors: Heightens awareness of dosing and name-confusion errors, and reduces complacency regarding potential medication errors.
RxSafety Advisor's suite of services focuses on typical dosing, expanding the pharmacist's ability to recognize and prevent medication errors:
Typical Dosing for Look-alike Sound-alike Drug Products
Point-of-dispensing alerts for error-prone drug pairs.
Product Features
RxSafety Advisor establishes a systems approach to reduce preventable mistakes, and to ease the burden on pharmacists' vigilance and memory.
- U.S. Patent Pending logic screens prescriptions against typical doses in real-time
- Messages alert pharmacists to double-check a prescription when an atypical dose may indicate an error
- Performs back-end reporting for self-audits
- Compatible with and complementary to any pharmacy system or other error reduction technology (such as bar-coding or robotics)
RxSafety Advisor requires no installation or special pharmacist training and can be implemented without additional software distribution costs.
