Description: Promoting and facilitating wise development and sound deployment of medication-use automation.
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I’VE BEEN THINKING about medication-safety technologies and beating the clock.
Sixty-some years ago, I enjoyed the popular ABC black-and-white television game show Beat the Clock . "America's number one clock watcher" and host, Bud Collyer, gave contestants simple, fun assignments. One episode, a lady had to balance a dinner plate on a pencil for fifteen seconds—before the clock “beat her.” On another, a guy had to tie a necktie in under a minute. Hey, there wasn’t much to do back then. Television programming has come a long way.
Nearly twenty-five years ago, I stumbled into what turned out to be a meaningful “assignment” of advocating for the use of medication safety technology. Though we’ve come a long way, we have plenty of clock to beat, and it’s anything but a game.