Lumetra Healthcare Solutions

March 7-13 is National Patient Safety Awareness Week, an education and awareness-building campaign for improving patient safety at the local level. Planned activities will focus on educating patients on how to become more involved in their own healthcare, and events will foster partnerships between healthcare providers and their patient community.

The 2010 theme, “Let’s Talk! Healthy Conversations for Safer Healthcare,” underscores the importance of communication.Healthy communication between provider, patient, and families helps assure treatment adherence and reduces unnecessary care. Participating hospitals will engage their staff, patients, and community with activities and events that emphasize the critical need for communication for a safe healthcare system.

Lumetra Healthcare Solutions has promoted patient safety at the local level for many years. We worked with managed care and pharmacy plans to develop patient brochures on medication management in several languages. Full communication with their attending physician and pharmacist about all the prescribed and over-the-counter medications being taken is critical, especially for patients who are aging. These brochures discuss the issues of drug-drug interactions and potentially inappropriate medications in laymen’s terms and the importance of keeping an accurate record of all drugs being taken.

We’re happy to make them available again for you to download:

• Managing Your Medicines (English)
• Managing Your Medicines (Spanish)
• Managing Your Medicines (Chinese)
• Managing Your Medicines (Vietnamese)

The success and timeliness of these materials underscore our continuing spotlight on clinical optimization and patient safety. Let us help you find sustainable solutions to your healthcare business challenges. Contact us at newbusiness@lumetrasolutions.com.