Driving Quality and Safety with EPS. Emma Suggett Principal Pharmacist Governance Medication Safety Officer University Hospital Birmingham
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