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Published Date: Dec. 15, 2000
Company Name: Bridge Medical Inc.
Address: 120 South Sierra
Solana Beach, CA 92075
Main Telephone
Number: 858/350-0100
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.bridgemedical.com
Chief Executive
Officer: John B. Grotting
Chief Financial
Officer: Brenda Foster, VP of Finance
Investor Relations
Contact: Brenda Foster
Business number: 858/350-0100
Public Relations
Contact: Larry Watts
Industry: Healthcare Information
Company description: Bridge Medical Inc., a technologies and services company with headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , was founded in 1996 to help hospitals eliminate medication errors medication error Malpractice An error in the type of medication administered or dosage. See Adverse effect, Error. , reduce the occurrence of adverse drug events and continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. improve quality in the delivery of drug therapies. We work with our customers to analyze their current systems, integrate the information technology currently installed, bring new technology to the bedside, and span the communication gaps that exist among physicians, nurses, pharmacists This is a list of notable pharmacists.
The Bridge Medication Management System provides capabilities to help hospitals protect patients and improve medication management. First, the Bridge System is networked to hospital information systems to display a patient profile that enables bar code verification of the "five rights" of drug administration -- right patient, right drug, right dose, right route of administration and right time. Equally important, the proprietary expert knowledge bases developed by Bridge alerts the clinician clinician /cli·ni·cian/ (kli-nish´in) an expert clinical physician and teacher. cli·ni·cian n. to other potential errors -- including look-alike look-a·like also look·a·like n. One that closely resembles another; a double. Noun 1. look-alike - someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very , sound-alike, administration alerts and over and under dosage dosage /dos·age/ (do´saj) the determination and regulation of the size, frequency, and number of doses. dos·age n. 1. Administration of a therapeutic agent in prescribed amounts. errors. |
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