Electronic Prescribing Medication Administration With Clinical Decision Support
Electronic Prescribing Medication Administration With Clinical Decision Support
4 PagesCASE STUDY Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTHTR) is one of the largest and highest performing National Health Service trusts in the United Kingdom. ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION WITH CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT The UK Department of Health mandated that all hospitals in the country become completely paperless by 2018. At LTHTR, implementation of QCPR began with the patient registration, radiology and laboratory orders/results, and scheduling modules. Nurse and Physician Clinical Documentation were next in line, first implemented in the Critical Care Units, and extended to all medical and surgical inpatient care areas of the hospital. In parallel, the implementation of an Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration (EPMA) syst
