Driving Quality and Safety with EPS. - ePrescribing Toolkit

Driving Quality and Safety

with EPS.

Emma Suggett

Principal Pharmacist Governance

Medication Safety Officer

University Hospital Birmingham

Workshop Aims • Differences between eP and CDSS

• Our Experience at UHB

• Pharmacy benefits for Quality and Safety of eP

and CDSS

• Are you an eP Pharmacist?

17th May 2013

“This will primarily be used for

electronic prescribing”

Definitions • Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration

(EPMA)

– Electronic management throughout

– eP or Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE)

• Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

– Enhances health-related decisions and actions

– Clinical Rules based on evidence / local knowledge-base

Health Information Technology

at UHBFT

In prescribing terms -

Basic Benefits

• Basic Benefits

– Legibility

– Accessibility

– Basic parameters

– → Reduce errors due to erroneous or absent information

Expert Error Surveillance

• Expert error detection

– Rules based surveillance with alerts outside order

entry

– → Reduce errors of omission or commission

Alerts & Controls

Antibiotic Stewardship

5 days

Time to do some Work……

Complete Warning Levels:

For Contraindications, Cautions and Interactions.

0 = Information Only

1 = Tick Box

2 = Password

3 = Absolute Disallow