Using e-prescribing and clinical decision support to improve patient care
as featured on bjhcim, august 2009 Neill Jones of First DataBank Europe highlights the major factors for ensuring that technology for e-prescribing and clinical decision support is implemented in a way that supports improvements in the provision of healthcare. |
What is E-Prescribing?
Since November 2007's debacle at Whitehall when two CDs with the bank details of 25 million people went missing we have seen many examples that demonstrate just how important the security of sensitive information should be in large organisations.
Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) is a safety system. The mandating of approved drug names and complete, legible and unambiguous prescriptions has been shown in some studies to reduce medication errors by around 60%(1)...but is that enough?
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