Hosp to integrate iPharmacy
July 18, 2014
PORTLAND Hospital has said
it intends to integrate pharmacy
software with its patient
administration system, TrakCare.
Chief Health Information manager
Claire Holt told PD the hospital
had implemented a medication
management module in the last six
to eight months, as first reported by
Pulse IT, and was now getting close
to having completely electronic
patient records.
The next step was to integrate
the production of Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme (PBS)-compliant
discharge scripts into this system.
This would be achieved by linking
TrakCare with iPharmacy, which
had PBS capabilities, she said.
The implementation should
be fairly easy across the region
as the interface already existed
and should cost less than $5,000,
hopefully in place by early next
year, Holt said.
TrakCare was an interoperable
system and would be able to
“speak” to other e-health systems,
she said.
The medication management
module had not seen a drop in
errors as yet, which was difficult to
achieve in such a small hospital, but
had seen clinically intelligent errors,
such as prescribing errors, replace
errors such as legibility which had
been removed, she said.
The module had saved time for
the resident pharmacist, who no
longer had to spend several hours
on the wards checking charts, she
said.
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