Patient Safety

Patient Safety:

By moving from the wasteful paper inserts that pharmacists read, and replacing them with real-time data and updates online, patients will receive medical care based on the most up-to-date details about their prescriptions.

Eliminating cumbersome prescribing information in paper form will:

  • Allow prescribing information to be updated in real time to ensure patient safety
  • Ensure the most updated prescribing information thereby reducing risk to patient safety
  • Give patients confidence that their healthcare provider has the safest and most up to date information when dispensing medication

Safety Data

  • When a label change is made, it can take on average 8-12 months to develop, implement, print, process, and deliver it through the supply chain, meaning it can be a full year before pharmacists and physicians receive these important changes in paper form
  • While this outdated paper-based information makes its way through the supply chain, this can contribute to conflicting or confusing information for prescribers, resulting in medication errors or inappropriate prescribing decisions
  • Providers instead rely on the real-time electronic updates to the label, which can give providers immediate access to current product information. Following FDA approval of a label change, this information is quickly updated on the NIH DailyMed Website
Making prescribing information real time, reliable, and environmentally sustainable.

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