As healthcare technology advances, health professionals who work with prescriptions or medical orders will need to learn about electronic prescribing soon. Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide explores how e-prescribing works, identifies features that help or hinder safe prescribing, and offers practical advice for implementing e-prescribing. Readers will learn to use electronic prescribing technology safely and effectively in the multi-disciplinary, complex environment of today's healthcare.
Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide is a clinician-level book that:
- focuses on safety issues encountered in everyday use of e-prescribing
- utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to patient safety that includes the perspectives of nurses, medical assistants, medical office managers, pharmacists, and software program designers
- dissects a freely accessible program, eRx NOW, to provide practical insight on present and potential features of e-prescribing
- discusses principles for reducing the potential for error in current and future e-prescribing systems
- identifies the workflow and patient safety challenges professionals encounter when working with e-prescribing, and provides practical suggestions for meeting those challenges
- outlines a flexible plan for implementation that proactively addresses barriers
Special Features:
- Glossary
- Visual Cues and Icons
- Sidebars
- Worksheets
- Tables
- Screenshots
- Logical Structure and Organization
