Electronic Prescribing


Book Description

Title Page Text [Edit] If you work with prescriptions or medical orders, chances are you will need to be familiar with electronic prescribing soon. Whether you are a health professional, physician, office manager, or medical secretary, THIS BOOK will provide the information you need to know for safe electronic prescribing by exploring how e-prescribing works, recognizing what e-prescribing features can help hinder safe prescribing, and offering practical advice for implementing e-prescribing. Not only will readers learn to use electronic prescribing technology safely, they will gain an appreciation for the roles their fellow healthcare workers play.




Principles of Electronic Prescribing


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Over the next few years, the Connecting for Health IT programme for the NHS in England is due to implement electronic prescribing systems at all hospitals in England. Furthermore, the other UK countries are likely to follow suit with clinical IT implementation programmes, and these developments will generate interest in electronic prescribing at European and international level. There is therefore likely to be an exponential growth in the significance of electronic prescribing over the next ten years. Principles of Electronic Prescribing discusses the basic principles of design and implementation of secondary care electronic medicines management systems, and how their design and configuration can impact on benefits realization, hospital workflow and clinical practice.




Medication Safety


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Medication safety is the most challenging goal for pharmacy practice and patient safety professionals in all health care facilities. This book serves as an essential reference guide for planning and implementing a medication safety program. Written by nationally-recognized experts, Medication Safety: A Guide for Health Care Facilities provides a comprehensive analysis of principles and practices associated with the prevention and identification of medication errors, as well as interdisciplinary, facility-wide recommendations for achieving medication safety in all settings. This book is divided into four sections so users can easily find the information they need: the Importance of Medication Safety, the Medication Safety Team, Building a Safe Medication Use System, and Measuring Medication Safety.













Advances in Patient Safety


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v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.




Electronic Prescribing a Complete Guide


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How do mission and objectives affect the Electronic Prescribing processes of our organization? Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Electronic Prescribing work? How is the team addressing them? What are your current levels and trends in key measures or indicators of Electronic Prescribing product and process performance that are important to and directly serve your customers? how do these results compare with the performance of your competitors and other organizations with similar offerings? Will Electronic Prescribing deliverables need to be tested and, if so, by whom? What does Electronic Prescribing success mean to the stakeholders? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Electronic prescribing investments work better. This Electronic prescribing All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Electronic prescribing Self-Assessment. Featuring 703 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Electronic prescribing improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Electronic prescribing projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Electronic prescribing and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Electronic prescribing Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Electronic prescribing areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Electronic prescribing self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.




Electronic Prescribing for the Medical Practice


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This book is a step-by-step guide on planning, choosing, and implementing electronic prescribing. It comes complete with valuable and powerful assessment tools empowering the physician to make the right choices the first time, and for planning, choosing, and implementing the right product for his or her practice. This book is interesting, informative and timely as thousands of physicians and providers begin to investigate e-prescribing and form questions concerning how to implement this life saving technology. Developed for practicing physicians and their office staff, this book provides clear, concise information and guidance on: *Exploring the current state of e-prescribing *Recognizing the benefits of e-prescribing *Learning the components of basic and more advanced systems *Understanding how e-prescribing fits in an overall health information plan, including moving to a full EMR system *Complying with Federal and state rules and initiatives *Adhering to standards *Choosing a system *Negotiating a contract *Implementing a system The book includes case studies that clearly illustrate and assist in the implementation process; worksheets that guide the gathering, synthesis, analysis and application of information to successfully choose and implement a system; and references and links to supportive materials.




Making Health Care Safer


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"This project aimed to collect and critically review the existing evidence on practices relevant to improving patient safety"--P. v.