Title
Development and evaluation of an integrated pharmaceutical education system.
Abstract
There is increasing evidence that patient safety can be improved by the introduction of an integrated computer-based medical care system in hospital settings. In this paper, we describe an integrated pharmaceutical information system (IPIS) in which a patient’s profile including his/her medication records and prescriptions are collected from physician order entry systems and pharmaceutical systems along with the history of patient care in the hospital. Based on an individual patient’s profile the IPIS can provide pharmaceutical education information specifically to meet the patient’s needs. The IPIS has been developed and installed at Taipei Medical University Wanfang Hospital (TMUWFH) since July 2002. Evaluation of the system showed that it can help patients to effectively acquire drug information. This enables them to have a much better understanding of the pharmacological properties of the medicines they are taking, including adverse drug reactions and side-effects. In our opinion the system has the potential to improve both patient safety and treatment outcomes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.02.005
International Journal of Medical Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pharmaceutical information services,Patient education,Medical informatics
Information system,Simulated patient,Family medicine,Patient safety,Knowledge management,Pharmacotherapy,Medical history,Medical emergency,Health informatics,Patient education,Medicine,Medical prescription
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
4
1386-5056
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
1.37
2
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chien-Tsai Liu120231.64
Yu-Ting Yeh2316.42
I-Jen Chiang313117.84
Hsiang-Yin Chen462.73
Ting-I Lee5113.79
Wen-ta Chiu613520.83