Pharmacoinformatics and Hospital Information System

Abstract

 The role of prescription order entry system is changing to the system which uses the accumulation data for a patient medical treatment from the system for an input. As the subject which must be solved in order to develop a medicine information system as follows; 1) standardization of a prescription description procedure and a prescription rule, 2) adjustment of prescription record and a medication actual result, 3) solution of the inconsistency with medicare system, 4) establishment of the communication-of-information method between medical facilities, and 5) contribution to medication error prevention.

 In order to secure the safety of pharmacotherapy, the prescription check function and the drug information serving function for supporting the drug selection and the prescription judgment are introduced. However, it is raised that the standard data used as the basis of a check is not created as a problem.

 “The prescription support window” was put in practical use as a new device for securing the safety of medication in Kanazawa Univ. Hospital. Moreover “the patient forum function” which have been introduced as a new tool which can communicate about an individual medical problem between a doctor, a nurse, and a pharmacist into the medical record system, and this function will be expected to contribute to patient care including pharmacotherapy.