Contingency Plan to Help Errors in Prescription Drugs

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• Barriers in Human Services

  Lack of patient understanding about a drug's directions There are several ways that technology may be able to assist in these areas and help to eliminate small but significant errors in fulfilling drug prescriptions.

• Malpractice by doctors in hospitals

  A prescription drug errors can occur if doctors and physicians that prescribed medication. Healthcare or nursing staffs who administer drugs can make errors. Pharmacist can also make a mistake in filling prescriptions.

• Policy Issues-Medicare

  The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 allows for the inclusion of prescription drug coverage (Part D) either as a stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan or as a Medicare Advantage Plan, which includes prescription drugs

• Medicare managed- care health plans

  Parts C and D: Part C enables users to design a custom plan that can be closely aligned with their medical needs, allowing members greater flexibility while Part D teams up with certain private insurers to cover prescription drugs. 3 advantages of

• Stereotype Attached to Prescription Drugs

  In addition, many of these prescription drugs can to help to relieve the symptoms or effects of one detrimental health condition, while simultaneously causing one more additional detrimental health conditions such as liver damage.

• 51.5 million errors in US prescriptions

  Some drug errors are due to names that look or sound the same. Also, drug interactions are a deadly problem, where 72 percent more prescription drugs have been purchased in the last decade. Also problematic is the combination with herbal remedies.

• The Medicare System

  In the years since Medicare's creation in 1965, the role of prescription drugs in U.S. patient care has significantly increased.

• Medicare Part D

  negotiate prices of drugs with the drug companies, as federal agencies do in other programs In 2012, the plan requires Medicare beneficiaries whose total drug costs reach $2,930 to pay 100% of prescription costs until $4,700 is spent out of pocket,

• Health Science Questions

  There are five basic steps for filling a prescription: (1) Taking in the prescription; (2) Translating the prescription; (3) Entering information in database; (4) Filling the script; and (5) Patient counseling.