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ePrescribing: What functionality should you start with?

ePrescribing: What functionality should you start with?. Neil Watson Director of Pharmacy The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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ePrescribing: What functionality should you start with?

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  1. ePrescribing: What functionality should you start with? Neil Watson Director of Pharmacy The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  2. This presentation is not going to provide you with a list of recommended go live functionality, but rather guidance as to how you should approach the question.

  3. Principles • Safe • Simple • Locally defined • “Go live” is the beginning, not the end. So consider where you want to start your journey. • Do you want to start your journey in chaos?

  4. Pre-go live • Scope • Build • Testing • Training….what can you achieve? • Managing expectations • Under promise, Over deliver Timescales

  5. Go Live • Expecting the unexpected and capacity to react. • Go Live team • Experience • Capacity to train and react

  6. Functionality/Benefits at go live IN OUT Complex meds Critical care (complex) Fully integrated with results Large numbers of complex order sets Reporting • Prescribing! • Medicines Administration records (actual times) • Critical care (simple) • Complex meds (plan) • Simple order sets • Formulary control • Plan for reporting requirements

  7. Decision Support at go live IN OUT Drug-Drug Interactions Patient-centric decision support Checking against renal function, age etc Checking against laboratory results Checking against documented co-morbidities • Order Sentences • Allergy Checks • Dose range (Paeds)

  8. “Go live” is the beginning, not the end. Consider very carefully where you want to start your journey.

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