ABSTRACT
Two out of six strategic axes of pharmaceutical care in our hospital are quality and safety of care, and the incorporation of information technologies. Based on this, an information system was developed in the outpatient setting for pharmaceutical care of patients with chronic hepatitis C, SiMON-VC, which would improve the quality and safety of their pharmacotherapy. The objective of this paper is to describe requirements, structure and features of SiMON-VC. Requirements demanded were that the information system would enter automatically all critical data from electronic clinical records at each of the visits to the Outpatient Pharmacy Unit, allowing the generation of events and alerts, documenting the pharmaceutical care provided, and allowing the use of data for research purposes. In order to meet these requirements, 5 sections were structured for each patient in SiMON-VC: Main Record, Events, Notes, Monitoring Graphs and Tables, and Follow-up. Each section presents a number of tabs with those coded data needed to monitor patients in the outpatient unit. The system automatically generates alerts for assisted prescription validation, efficacy and safety of using antivirals for the treatment of this disease. It features a completely versatile Indicator Control Panel, where temporary monitoring standards and alerts can be set. It allows the generation of reports, and their export to the electronic clinical record. It also allows data to be exported to the usual operating systems, through Big Data and Business Intelligence. Summing up, we can state that SiMON-VC improves the quality of pharmaceutical care provided in the outpatient pharmacy unit to patients with chronic hepatitis C, increasing the safety of antiviral therapy (AU)
Dos ejes estratégicos de la atención farmacéutica en nuestro hospital son la calidad y seguridad asistencial y la incorporación de tecnologías de la información. En base a ellos, en el ámbito de pacientes externos, se desarrolló un sistema de información para la atención farmacéutica de pacientes con hepatitis C cró- nica, SiMON-VC, que mejorase la calidad y seguridad de su farmacoterapia. El objetivo de este trabajo es describir requisitos, estructura y prestaciones de SiMON-VC. Los requisitos exigidos fueron que el sistema de información incorpore automáticamente datos críticos desde la historia clínica electrónica en cada una de las visitas a consulta externa de Farmacia, que permita la generación de eventos y alertas, que documente la atención farmacéutica proporcionada y que posibilite la explotación de los datos con fines de investigación. Para cumplir estos requisitos SiMON-VC se estructuraron 5 apartados para cada paciente: Registro Principal, Eventos, Notas, Gráfica y Tablas de Seguimiento y Seguimientos. Cada apartado dispone de una serie de pestañas con datos codificados necesarios para el seguimiento del paciente en consulta externa. El sistema genera automáticamente alertas de efectividad y seguridad de la utilización de antivirales para el tratamiento de esta patología y como sistema de ayuda a la validación farmacéutica de la prescripción médica. Incorpora un Cuadro de Mando de Indicadores totalmente versátil, para el que se pueden definir estándares y alertas de seguimiento temporales. Permite la generación de informes y su exportación hacia la historia clínica electrónica. Posibilita la exportación de los datos a los sistemas de explotación habituales, con fines de investigación a través de Big-Data y Business Intelligence. Como conclusión se puede indicar que SiMON-VC mejora la calidad de la atención farmacéutica proporcionada en consulta externa de Farmacia a pacientes con hepatitis C crónica, incrementando la seguridad del tratamiento antiviral (AU)
Subject(s)
Humans , Hepatitis B, Chronic/drug therapy , Antiviral Agents/administration & dosage , Drug Monitoring/methods , Pharmaceutical Services/organization & administration , Information Technology , Quality of Health Care , Patient SafetyABSTRACT
Two out of six strategic axes of pharmaceutical care in our hospital are quality and safety of care, and the incorporation of information technologies. Based on this, an information system was developed in the outpatient setting for pharmaceutical care of patients with chronic hepatitis C, SiMON-VC, which would improve the quality and safety of their pharmacotherapy. The objective of this paper is to describe requirements, structure and features of Si- MON-VC. Requirements demanded were that the information system would enter automatically all critical data from electronic clinical records at each of the visits to the Outpatient Pharmacy Unit, allowing the generation of events and alerts, documenting the pharmaceutical care provided, and allowing the use of data for research purposes. In order to meet these requirements, 5 sections were structured for each patient in SiMON-VC: Main Record, Events, Notes, Monitoring Graphs and Tables, and Follow-up. Each section presents a number of tabs with those coded data needed to monitor patients in the outpatient unit. The system automatically generates alerts for assisted prescription validation, efficacy and safety of using antivirals for the treatment of this disease. It features a completely versatile Indicator Control Panel, where temporary monitoring standards and alerts can be set. It allows the generation of reports, and their export to the electronic clinical record. It also allows data to be exported to the usual operating systems, through Big Data and Business Intelligence. Summing up, we can state that SiMON-VC improves the quality of pharmaceutical care provided in the outpatient pharmacy unit to patients with chronic hepatitis C, increasing the safety of antiviral therapy.
Dos ejes estratégicos de la atención farmacéutica en nuestro hospital son la calidad y seguridad asistencial y la incorporación de tecnologías de la información. En base a ellos, en el ámbito de pacientes externos, se desarrolló un sistema de información para la atención farmacéutica de pacientes con hepatitis C crónica, SiMON-VC, que mejorase la calidad y seguridad de su farmacoterapia. El objetivo de este trabajo es describir requisitos, estructura y prestaciones de SiMON-VC. Los requisitos exigidos fueron que el sistema de información incorpore automáticamente datos críticos desde la historia clínica electrónica en cada una de las visitas a consulta externa de Farmacia, que permita la generación de eventos y alertas, que documente la atención farmacéutica proporcionada y que posibilite la explotación de los datos con fines de investigación. Para cumplir estos requisitos SiMON-VC se estructuraron 5 apartados para cada paciente: Registro Principal, Eventos, Notas, Gráfica y Tablas de Seguimiento y Seguimientos. Cada apartado dispone de una serie de pestañas con datos codificados necesarios para el seguimiento del paciente en consulta externa. El sistema genera automáticamente alertas de efectividad y seguridad de la utilización de antivirales para el tratamiento de esta patología y como sistema de ayuda a la validación farmacéutica de la prescripción médica. Incorpora un Cuadro de Mando de Indicadores totalmente versátil, para el que se pueden definir estándares y alertas de seguimiento temporales. Permite la generación de informes y su exportación hacia la historia clínica electrónica. Posibilita la exportación de los datos a los sistemas de explotación habituales, con fines de investigación a través de Big-Data y Business Intelligence. Como conclusión se puede indicar que SiMON-VC mejora la calidad de la atención farmacéutica proporcionada en consulta externa de Farmacia a pacientes con hepatitis C crónica, incrementando la seguridad del tratamiento antiviral.
Subject(s)
Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use , Drug Monitoring/instrumentation , Hepatitis C, Chronic/drug therapy , Hospital Information Systems , Adult , Antiviral Agents/administration & dosage , Electronic Health Records , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pharmacy Service, Hospital/organization & administration , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
At present, one of the primary concerns of healthcare professionals is how to increase the safety and quality of the care that patients receive during their stay in hospital. This is particularly important in the administration of expensive and high-risk medicines with which it is fundamental to minimize the possibility of adverse events in the process of prescription-validation-preparation/dosage-dispensation-administration of intravenous mixes. This work is a detailed analysis of the evaluation, carried out by the health personnel involved in the Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) system developed in the Day Hospital and Pharmacy services of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC). The RFID system is evaluated by analyzing surveys completed by said health personnel, since their questions represent the key indicators of the patient care process (safety, cost, adequacy with the clinical practice). This work allows us to conclude, among other things, that the system tracks the patients satisfactorily and that its cost, though high, is justified in the context of the project context (use of dangerous and costly medication).
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Patient Identification Systems/methods , Radio Frequency Identification Device , Health Personnel , Humans , Patient SafetyABSTRACT
This work presents the integration of the RFID technology with the aim of ensuring the traceability of patients and minimization of adverse events during the process of prescription-validation-elaboration-dispensation-administration of medication by means of the implementation of various passive and active WIFI RFID systems in the Pharmacy and Day Hospital services of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña. Obtaining patient traceability and using the patient/drug binomial during this process allows us to minimize the occurrence of adverse events. The key points in this work are the unmistakably unique identification and accurate real time location of the controlled items (patients and medication). RFID technology has proved to be invaluable in assisting with the everyday clinical practice of a hospital, and has been successfully implemented in this environment and others. In services such as the day hospital, the implementation of said technology is further justified by the high costs of the service and the high risk to the patient.
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Patient Identification Systems/methods , Radio Frequency Identification Device/methods , Wireless Technology , Administration, Intravenous , Delivery of Health Care/trends , Humans , Patient SafetyABSTRACT
Most of the information collected in different fields by Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC) is classified as unstructured due to its high volume and heterogeneity. This situation, linked to the recent requirement of integrating it to the medical information, makes it necessary to implant specific architectures to collect and organize it before it can be analysed. The purpose of this article is to present the Hadoop framework as a solution to the problem of integrating research information in the Business Intelligence field. This framework can collect, explore, process and structure the aforementioned information, which allow us to develop an equivalent function to a data mart in an Intelligence Business system.
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Algorithms , Biomedical Research/organization & administration , Datasets as Topic , Electronic Health Records/organization & administration , Information Storage and Retrieval/methods , Medical Record Linkage/methods , Natural Language Processing , Spain , Systems IntegrationABSTRACT
ACHEGAMED is an unsupervised real-time patient monitoring system, with the goal of decreasing the exam and diagnosis time of the most prevalent diseases in today's healthcare services. We developed, as a component of ACHEGAMED, a system for storing a wide range of biomedical parameters as ISO 13606 extracts. The system is able to detect clinical alarms in those parameters and communicate them, if needed, to the appropriate medical staff. Although a component of ACHEGAMED, it can be integrated in other systems in a semantic interoperable way thanks to the ISO 13606 standard, allowing the continuity of patient care.
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Data Mining/standards , Health Information Systems/standards , Information Storage and Retrieval/standards , Monitoring, Physiologic/standards , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Telemedicine/standards , Clinical Alarms/standards , InternationalityABSTRACT
On daily procedures, companies and organizations produce a wide quantity of data. Medical information doubles every five years approximately, and most of this information has no structure and cannot be utilised. Information obtained during Primary Health Care (PC) consultations is expected to be standardized and organised following instructions made by archetype 13606 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in order to guarantee the Continuity of Care as well as the potential use of these data for secondary purposes, such as investigation or statistics. This study was designed to investigate the feasibility of representing the information collected in Primary Care consultations in a structured and normalized way. A key difference to other approaches is that the intended solution is, to the best of our knowledge, the first one to register all the information collected in this area. The participation of the Primary Health Care service (PC) from Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC) has been of vital importance in this project as it has provided the necessary clinical knowledge and it has allowed us to verify the effectiveness obtained in actual environments. The archetypes developed can be reused in a wide range of projects. As an example of use, we have used these archetypes to create an intelligent system that generates organised reports based on the information dictated on a medical consultation which, afterwards, can be analysed from an analytical point of view.
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Electronic Health Records/standards , Medical Record Linkage/standards , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Primary Health Care/standards , Referral and Consultation/standards , Vocabulary, Controlled , InternationalityABSTRACT
One of the most important factors that directly affects the quality of health care is patient safety. Minimize the occurrence of adverse events is one of the main challenges for health professionals. This requires continuous tracking of the patient by different areas and services, a process known as traceability and proper patient identification and medication prescribed. This article presents an information system for patient tracking and drugs developed for the Emergency Department of Hospital A Coruña. The systems use RFID technology to perform various tasks: (1) locate patients in different areas; (2) measure patient care times and waiting times; (3) identify unitary doses of medication; and (4) ensure the correct matching between the patient and the medication prescribed by the doctor. The hardware infrastructure as well as the optimal configuration of devices interconnected via a wireless network was determined by conducting a detailed coverage study. To support all the functionality needed, specific tools were designed and integrated with proprietary software applications. The RFID system was evaluated positively by staff from different professional profiles involved in its development or subsequent implementation.
