Marginal benefit here is likely 100x the marginal cost. This is a classic case where market forces alone do not solve an externality, and where regulation is justified.
NHSE seeks ‘further evidence’ over ‘poor-quality’ medicines barcodes
https://t.co/LEaQzg4Biz
@ComPharmEngland said it has received “more reports” of unusable or missing barcodes on medicines packs, as well as “inconsistent use” of GTINs #pharmacy#communitypharmacy https://t.co/j0tRItByg5
Clarity doesn’t always come from thinking.
It comes from:
• Moving
• Making
• Messing up
• Trying again
Sometimes you should delegate things to your subconscious.
Pharmacists are the first to spot when something isn’t right. Barcode accuracy may sound technical, but its consequences are deeply human....
https://t.co/6EIqjNS3AW
Interesting petition, as you would think it shouldn’t be needed, and barcodes and their accuracy should be fundamental to the packaging of medicines.
Make accurate medicine barcodes (GTIN) mandatory to protect patient safety - Petitions https://t.co/2mmJnvE3h6
@paulg STEM will become like art. Winners take all. Top end scientists who can push the models boundaries will earn millions. Never was possible before for IC in STEM. Average scientists will not earn secure wages anymore. They became like to-be-artists in LA
@tjparker@danielzarick But you didn’t build the full pharmacy OS from day one, right? You started with manual back-office ops and automated as you scaled. Isn’t that basically the same playbook—just applied internally instead of customer-facing?
@haroon@andrewchen Domain matters. There are high intentions in selecting healthcare providers,we learned that onboarding @pillsorted needs to be tailored to complexity of patients and users not only bothered, they see it as part of receiving good care. Self selection bias in old dataset?
@cjarmstrong2 “Kickback” is too harsh of accusation but I fully agree that it is false cost saving. It only accounts for the direct allocated cost of medication to specific cost center. It doesn’t account for all the time wasted of dealing with managing the OOS and changing of Rxs
@levie@liron “[AI empowered]Compassionate caregivers would be trained not just in operating and understanding the diagnostic tools but also in communicating with patients, consoling them in times of trauma, and emotionally supporting them throughout their treatment.” @kaifulee
“Not so good at math!
Large language models do not, on their own, make calculations. When LLMs are asked to generate math, they generate it the same way they generate text: probabilistically….sometimes make mistakes when working with simple arithmetic”. @OpenAI@khanacademy
@strides_pharma@NHSBSA@ptsafetyNHS @PSNCNews @ChemistDruggist GTIN error is a challenge for pharmacies. An industry wide approach is needed to keep manufacturers accountable for not recycling the GTIN code. @MHRAmedicines oversight is needed same way they check PIL
@strides_pharma@NHSBSA@ptsafetyNHS The expiry date is clear on the picture. It is not an old product. It is an item we just received in our pharmacy. The DMD website data is also current and live. To me the error is still out there and someone need to make the correction before too late.
Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally.
Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind: