Blog Posts
August 8, 2017 | Sean O’Neill and Parth Shah
Before we set out on a journey to create a solution to improve medication safety for some of the most dangerous drugs administered to patients, we sought to find out…
March 15, 2017 | Sean O’Neill
During my career as a clinical pharmacist, I maintained certain preconceived notions about “vendors”. It might not be surprising to learn that these were almost entirely negative. I believed that…
February 16, 2017 | Laura Hegwer – HFMA
The Office Of Entrepreneurship And Innovation At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia Helps Turn Good Ideas Into New Products And Services Designed To Improve Care For Patients And Their Families…
January 23, 2017 | Sean O’Neill
After almost 12 years, I am officially leaving The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to focus on building a company, Bainbridge Health. If you would have told me, even as…
January 9, 2017 | Sean O’Neill
We all know the childhood story about the boy who cried wolf. The story, derived from Aesop’s Fables, is really quite simple: A boy repeatedly enters his village screaming that…
October 27, 2016 | Sean O’Neill
In 2011, I became the first Medication Safety Officer in a large academic teaching hospital. The excitement of this opportunity was immediately accompanied by a sense of panic and the…
October 11, 2016 | Sean O’Neill
The answer to that question is NO. Some hospital leaders may take offense to this statement, but it is not an indictment of the quality of a particular organization’s safety…
