2. Pharmacy Automation
Automation
Tools to support
the quality of
pharmacy
integration
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3. CPOE Build Audit Tools
Tools to support
the quality of
medication
integration
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4. THE PROBLEM
Pharmacy is not
a
“lick, stick, coun
t and pour”
industry
anymore.
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5. THE PROBLEM
“Medication errors are
among the most
common medical
errors, harming at least
1.5 million people every
year.”
- Institute of Medicine of
the National Academies.
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6. “…..[it’s] not about
medication errors but the
need to develop
computerized decision
support that targets the
most troublesome types of
adverse drug events.”
- Jonathan Nebeker, M.D., attending
physician, VA’s Salt Lake City Health Care
System
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8. With the intense
shortage of
pharmacy informatics
workers, the complex
analytical work has
all but disabled
appropriate project
progress for many
small health systems.
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9. Complex pharmacy-
related databases
contribute to high
support costs AND
the potential for
electronic
contribution to
medication errors.
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10. Identify what data elements
are important.
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11. Drug Description
Generic Name
Form
Dose
Strength
Package Size
NDC Number
Therapeutic Class
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