Development and Practice of Electronic Prescription Evaluation System for Outpatient Department / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:To promote the working efficiency of hospital prescription evaluation and improve pharmacists profes-sional quality through developmenting electronic prescription evaluation system (EPES) for outpatient department used by taking full advantage of large amount of information of electronic prescription. METHODS:By using system structure of Client/Server, Web Service middleware,programming tool of PowerBuilder and database technique of Oracle and sharing Hospital information sys-tem data,EPES was designed and applied,which could collect prescription information and generate summary form automatically after artificial prescription evaluation. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:Integration of outpatient electronic medical records,historical prescriptions and medical test results query system make the EPES carry comprehensive information which could make up for disad-vantages of paper prescription form in the aspect of obtaining outpatient medical records,historical prescriptions or medical test re-sults. EPES can accomplish general and special prescription evaluation and also pledges the equity and justness of process by ran-dom sampling. The operation of the system could improve the efficiency from taking 24-36 h in paper prescription form to 4-6 h to complete general prescription evaluation,which also improves professional quality of pharmacists by intensive training.