TY - CHAP
T1 - Networking Hospital ePrescribing
T2 - A Systemic View of Digitalization of Medicines' Use in England
AU - Lichtner, Valentina
AU - Hibberd, Ralph
AU - Cornford, Tony
PY - 2016/7/21
Y1 - 2016/7/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Electronic Health Records/organization & administration
KW - Electronic Prescribing
KW - England
KW - Medical Order Entry Systems/organization & administration
KW - Medical Record Linkage/methods
KW - Medication Systems, Hospital/organization & administration
KW - Models, Organizational
KW - Utilization Review
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-73
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-73
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 27332165
SN - 9781614996576
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 73
EP - 77
BT - Nursing Informatics 2016
A2 - Sermeus, Walter
A2 - Procter, Paula M.
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
