Sunday, November 23, 2008

Levels of Security on pharmacy informatics

The Pentagon just recently banned computer flash drives due to virus threats on the various netwroks. We see in hospital systems today many "worms" and virus entering the overall networks - only having it necessary to shut down thew systems and resorting to the old paper systems until the systems are up and running. I think a study of measuring medication errors during these times of "technology down time" might be interesting to track and whether these errors are more profound than the ones we were used to seeing when eveything was on paper overall and steps were in place to dispense with the paper trails. I think having a mixed system of computer versus paper might be more detrimental in the long term.

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