Concerning the dosage form, the dose and the route of administration. The system’s ability to check for allergies and the drug-drug interaction helps perform the dosage adjustment calculations for the special patients based on their weight and the renal function.
The CPOE system also helps the clinical officers to check appropriate baseline laboratory results and compute the drug-laboratory interactions. Updating the prescribers with the latest drug information through the CPOE system enables the prescribers to comply with legal requirements for prescribing the drugs.
More than 40% of the medication errors are attributed to handoffs due to improper documentation at the different stages of healthcare provision. The computerized physician order entry system reduces errors while prescribing medicine, but the system cannot detect when the current physician fails to prescribe the medication the patient was taking before admission or transfer.
Adopting an electronic medical reconciliation system provides an effective approach to curb these discrepancies. This system enables healthcare providers to make comparisons between a patients medication orders and his or her medication intake. The system utilizes two lists: the current list of medication and the one that is yet to be prescribed.
The system then compares the medications on the two lists, make clinical decisions based on the comparison and provide the appropriate medication list both to the clinical officer and
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