Lichtner, V, Hibberd, R and Cornford, T (2016) Networking Hospital ePrescribing: A Systemic View of Digitalization of Medicines' Use in England. Studies in health technology and informatics, 225. pp. 73-77. ISSN 0926-9630
Abstract
Medicine management is at the core of hospital care and digitalization of prescribing and administration of medicines is often the focus of attention of health IT programs. This may be conveyed to the public in terms of the elimination of paper-based drug charts and increased readability of doctors' prescriptions. Based on analysis of documents about hospital medicines supply and use (including systems' implementation) in the UK, in this conceptual paper electronic prescribing and administration are repositioned as only one aspect of an important wider transformation in medicine management in hospital settings, involving, for example, procurement, dispensing, auditing, waste management, research and safety vigilance. Approaching digitalization from a systemic perspective has the potential to uncover the wider implications of this transformation for patients, the organization and the wider health care system.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 IMIA and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. |
Keywords: | ePrescribing, CPOE, innovation, transformational change, value |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds) > Nursing Adult (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2016 10:55 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2016 09:59 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-73 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOS Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-73 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102288 |