TY - CHAP
T1 - Pharmacy Interweaving Safety Within Hospital Health Information Technology
AU - Valentina, Lichtner
AU - Westbrook, Johanna I.
AU - Dean, Franklin Bryony
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Research on the impact of hospital technology on medication safety usually focuses on prescribing and administration. Less is known about the pharmacy-related processes of reviewing, ordering and dispensing medications and how technology supports this work. We carried out a qualitative exploratory study of a hospital in England (UK) with the aim of gaining insight into processes of digitalisation. We found that hospital pharmacy staff perform safety work with technology aiming to prevent harm, such as ‘scaffolding’ people's thinking processes, or linking-up unintegrated systems. Their work seems to ‘interweave’ safety in between others' medication activities, but they do so sometimes struggling with technological deficiencies.
AB - Research on the impact of hospital technology on medication safety usually focuses on prescribing and administration. Less is known about the pharmacy-related processes of reviewing, ordering and dispensing medications and how technology supports this work. We carried out a qualitative exploratory study of a hospital in England (UK) with the aim of gaining insight into processes of digitalisation. We found that hospital pharmacy staff perform safety work with technology aiming to prevent harm, such as ‘scaffolding’ people's thinking processes, or linking-up unintegrated systems. Their work seems to ‘interweave’ safety in between others' medication activities, but they do so sometimes struggling with technological deficiencies.
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-890-7-105
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-890-7-105
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781614998891
VL - 252
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 105
EP - 111
BT - Connecting the System to Enhance the Practitioner and Consumer Experience in Healthcare
A2 - , Elizabeth Cummings
A2 - , Angela Ryan
A2 - , Louise K. Schaper
PB - IOS Press
ER -