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Emily Jerry Foundation endorses life-saving technology by CDEX



The Emily Jerry Foundation is proud to announce a new partnership with CDEX, Inc. to build public awareness about its pioneering chemical detection equipment designed to ensure medical facilities are delivering the right medications to patients. The Emily Jerry Foundation is actively promoting the life-saving capability of the ValiMed™ Medication Validation System (MVS) as an imperative device in the prevention of human pharmaceutical errors.
CDEX is a Tucson, AZ-based company specializing in chemical detection technologies with a vision for saving lives and protecting assets. ValiMed™ MVS is a technological safety net that provides protection from medication errors for patients, pharmacists and hospitals. The table-top device ─ engineered to eliminate mistakes made while mixing compounds at a hospital ─ uses a technique called enhanced photoemission spectroscopy to determine if the compounds are correct. The device is clinically proven to save lives.
For more information, go to www.cdexinc.com.

S.E.A. Medical Systems, Inc. is a privately held medical device company dedicated to making intravenous (IV) drug delivery safer for patients. We are developing medical devices that catch serious or life-threatening intravenous drug errors before they harm patients.

Intravenous drug delivery is the most powerful route to administer drugs but when things go wrong, it has the most devastating consequences. “To Err Is Human”, a landmark study released in 20002, focused attention on the startling cost of medical error in patient injury and death and extra medical costs. It estimated that “7,000 people are killed in U.S. hospitals each year when they receive the wrong medicine or the wrong dosage”8. Medication errors are estimated to injure at least 1.5 million people every year and cost hospitals $3.5B in additional hospitalization costs1.

Adverse drug events (ADEs) cost large hospitals up to $5.6M per year; $10-20,000 additional medical cost per incident. Sixty-one percent of the most serious and life threatening potential medication errors are IV related and 58% of IV errors happen during drug administration11.

S.E.A. Medical is guided by the following principles:

  • respect for medical professionals and the complexity of their mission,
  • compassion for patients and their needless suffering from avoidable drug errors, and
  • determination to provide a system that improves safety while fitting elegantly with current practice and systems, to accurately detect and report IV drug errors before they harm patients.
These principles lead S.E.A. Medical to create solutions with the widest possible impact on patient safety throughout the medication preparation and administration process.
Support the cause by visiting their site at seamedical.com

Codonics, Inc.

The Codonics SLS Safe Label System is based upon the SmartLabels technology licensed from Massachusetts General Hospital. The system was developed by anesthesiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital to prevent intravenous medication errors via bar-code assisted medication labeling. At the 2008 ASA Annual Meeting, the system was awarded the Ellison C. Pierce Award from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation for best scientific exhibit in patient safety. Visit them online at codonics.com


At Catheter Connections, we develop innovative vascular access products that can protect patients from life-threatening infections during infusion therapy.

Our flagship, patent-pending product, DualCap™, safely disinfects all infusion access points — a major breakthrough for infection control. Designed by infusion nurses, DualCap can reduce the human variability associated with IV care and provides healthcare facilities with an easy to use, cost-effective technology that can help in the fight against catheter related blood stream infections. Visit them online at catheterconnections.com

The Texas Medical Institute of Technology (TMIT) is a medical research organization, founded in 1984, dedicated to accelerating performance solutions that save lives, save money, and build value in the communities we serve and ventures we undertake. Our core values drive our behaviors and in turn drive our culture. TMIT applies the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) design principles of patient-centeredness, evidence-based medicine, and systems performance improvement.
Since its establishment in 1990, PharmCon has been providing quality continuing education for the healthcare profession. Through the years, our focus has been on continuing education for physicians and pharmacists, working with the pharmaceutical industry, professional associations, and managed care organizations. Recently, our services have expanded to include physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses. Visit PharmCon’s site for more info.
PharmCon has generously offered to donate 100% of the proceeds from their “Emily’s Act: Impact on Public Safety and Medication Errors” continuing education program directly to The Emily Jerry Foundation.  In fact, they are flying Chris Jerry down to Miami, later this month to help produce a new updated version of this program that will include some narration from him directly about various aspects of Emily’s tragic story.

Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) is a consumer-led nonprofit organization formed to be a collective voice for individuals, families and healers who wish to prevent harm in healthcare encounters through partnership and collaboration. CAPS is committed to exploring and contributing the wisdom and experience that consumers can offer to patient safety research, education of both consumers and providers, reporting of bad outcomes and near misses, development and implementation of solutions that can prevent harm, and policy making that will help create healthcare systems that are safe, compassionate and just.

For more info visit their website by clicking here.


Institute for Safe Medication Practices
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), based in suburban Philadelphia, is the nation’s only 501c (3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use. ISMP represents over 35 years of experience in helping healthcare practitioners keep patients safe, and continues to lead efforts to improve the medication use process. The organization is known and respected worldwide as the premier resource for impartial, timely, and accurate medication safety information.

To Learn more, click here to visit ismp.org.

eBroselow
When children have serious emergencies, medical staff must act quickly but not make critical mistakes that could kill. But with kids, mistakes are easy to make.

James Broselow MD and Robert Luten MD have dedicated their lives to helping doctors and nurses make the correct decisions quickly. Artemis is their latest innovation to improve care, increase treatment efficiency, and save lives.

To Learn more, click here to visit ebroselow.com.

Baxa Corporation

Baxa Corporation is honored to partner with the Emily Jerry Foundation. Baxa is a leading provider of innovative, solution-based technologies for delivering safe patient doses, especially intravenous doses. Its systems and devices promote the safe and efficient preparation, handling, packaging and administration of fluid medications.

Baxa offers the DoseEdge(r) Pharmacy Work Flow Manager, a software system intended to ensure that compounded IV doses contain all the right ingredients in the right amounts. Additional products automate the preparation of syringe-based doses as well as IV nutrition doses (TPN). Baxa Corporation is also a pioneer in the use of oral syringes for accurate measurement and safe delivery of oral liquid medications to neonates, children and older adults.

Additionally, Baxa supports continuing education for pharmacists and healthcare professionals at our STAR Center(r) (Skills Training Academics and Resources) training facility, as well as offering a complimentary educational webinar series.

For more information about Baxa Corporation visit us online at www.baxa.com.

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  • Our mission

    The Emily Jerry Foundation is determined to help make our nation’s, world renowned, medical facilities safer for everyone, beginning with our babies and children. We are accomplishing this very important objective by focusing on increasing public awareness of key patient safety related issues and identifying technology and best practices that are proven to minimize the “human error” component of medicine. Through our ongoing efforts The Emily Jerry Foundation is working hard to save lives every day.


    Thank You So Very Much for Your Support! ~Chris Jerry

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