Development and evaluation of an integrated pharmaceutical education system

Chien-Tsai Liu; Yu-Ting Yeh; I-Jen Chiang; Hsiang-Yin Chen; Ting-I Lee; Wen-Ta Chiu

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.02.005

Development and evaluation of an integrated pharmaceutical education system

Chien-Tsai Liu, Yu-Ting Yeh, I-Jen Chiang, Hsiang-Yin Chen, Ting-I Lee, Wen-Ta Chiu

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Abstract

There is increasing evidence that patient safety can be improved by the introduction of an integrated computer-based medical care system in hospital settings. In this paper, we describe an integrated pharmaceutical information system (IPIS) in which a patient's profile including his/her medication records and prescriptions are collected from physician order entry systems and pharmaceutical systems along with the history of patient care in the hospital. Based on an individual patient's profile the IPIS can provide pharmaceutical education information specifically to meet the patient's needs. The IPIS has been developed and installed at Taipei Medical University Wanfang Hospital (TMUWFH) since July 2002. Evaluation of the system showed that it can help patients to effectively acquire drug information. This enables them to have a much better understanding of the pharmacological properties of the medicines they are taking, including adverse drug reactions and side-effects. In our opinion the system has the potential to improve both patient safety and treatment outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	383-389
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume	73
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.02.005
Publication status	Published - May 2004

Keywords

Medical informatics
Patient education
Pharmaceutical information services

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Health Informatics

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