The electronic medication management (EMM) system should support clinical decision support, which should be: Appropriate and applicable to Australian medication practice Available and active during the prescribing process Available during medication administration Automatically re-run whenever new medicines or changed medicines are ordered for a patient Intelligently hyperlinked, so that reference material is available without the need for the prescriber to leave the prescribing function. Reference information could include: A local formulary Locally configured pharmacy-supplied information for example, treatment options – Therapeutic Guidelines Australian Medicines Handbook MIMS Australia§ Hospital policies Information on pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics External websites or online resources. Box 5.1 lists items and actions that benefit from using a clinical decision support system. Box and actions for decision support An electronic medication management system should include decision support tools for the following items: Medicine–allergy checks Medicine adverse reactions Intolerance Contraindications Dose range checking Therapeutic duplication Medicine–medicine interactions Medicine–allergy interactions Medicine diagnostic test result checking – Medicine–disease checking Cumulative dose checking Medicine–age interaction Medicine–gender interaction, such as excluding pregnancy and breastfeeding warnings on medicines prescribed to male patients
The electronic medication management (EMM) system should support clinical decision support, which should be: Appropriate and applicable to Australian medication practice Available and active during the prescribing process Available during medication administration Automatically re-run whenever new medicines or changed medicines are ordered for a patient Intelligently hyperlinked, so that reference material is available without the need for the prescriber to leave the prescribing function. Reference information could include: A local formulary Locally configured pharmacy-supplied information – for example, treatment options Therapeutic Guidelines Australian Medicines Handbook MIMS Australia§ Hospital policies Information on pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics External websites or online resources. Box 5.1 lists items and actions that benefit from using a clinical decision support system. Box and actions for decision support An electronic medication management system should include decision support tools for the following items: Medicine–allergy checks Medicine adverse reactions Intolerance Contraindications Dose range checking Therapeutic duplication Medicine–medicine interactions Medicine–allergy interactions Medicine – diagnostic test result checking Medicine–disease checking Cumulative dose checking Medicine–age interaction Medicine–gender interaction, such as excluding pregnancy and breastfeeding warnings on medicines prescribed to male patients
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