Improving medication safety with electronic prescribing The second largest site of the King’s College NHS Foundation Trust, Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) took a significant step on their journey to an Allscripts Sunrise electronic patient record in November 2017, when the organisation implemented the first phase of the Sunrise Acute Care deployment. At that time, PRUH introduced order communications and results, some electronic documentation and nursing assessments. A tab within the open Sunrise EPR enables clinicians to view information and documentation, captured from multiple systems across the Trust. Within six months, PRUH went from paper to a digitised record. The next phase of the rollout was to deploy Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration (EPMA

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