health care and Senior Citizen information services

The purpose of this blog is to inform people about health care. Our efforts are aimed at KeepSeniorsHealthy by promoting and empowering consumers in health care.

For example, what are the stats on adverse incidents in health care?

Here they are (according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Clinical Decision Support:Improving Saftey, Efficiency and Quality of Care, December 2005;

1. in 15 inpatient admissions includes a significant adverse drug event
2. Adverse drug events occur in up to 18% of ambulatory patients
3. 6 percent of admissions are caused by an adversed drug event
4. Preventable medication errors cost $2 billion annually
5. Poor medication utilization costs another $27 billion.


What can you do? visit http://www.PassportMD.com or visit http://www.KeepSeniorsHealthy.com so that you can use their wizard to create your medical record with your medications, organized, legible and accessible from anywhere.