• Support patient safety initiatives – Siemens Pharmacy provides tools that the pharmacist uses to validate physician order entry and provides clinical conflict screening capabilities such as allergy checking or drug-to-drug interactions. 

• Improve communication from the pharmacy to the bedside – Siemens Pharmacy provides a common view of medication data between pharmacists and nurses.

“The first week that we launched the solution, we caught 383 medication errors – the wrong patient about to receive the wrong medication, or about to receive it at the wrong time, or at the wrong dose. That was a humbling experience. I can’t imagine a healthcare system even considering a future without something like Pharmacy/MAK in place."

Michael David Patterson, MD 
Vice President of Quality and Performance Excellence and Chief Medical Officer MedCentral Health System