The Health Quality & Safety Commission works with clinicians and health service providers to improve the quality and safety of health and disability services. One of the Commission’s priorities is for district health boards (DHBs) to implement paper or electronic medicine reconciliation in all hospitals by January 2012.1 To date, 17 DHBs have implemented medicine reconciliation based on the saf...

To ensure quality in medication management, the electronic medication management system (EMMS) must communicate and collaborate with other IT systems in the hospital, particularly the electronic patient record (EPR). To achieve those integrations is not purely a technical task, and the aim of our paper is to contribute to the development of a socio-technical understanding of integration in heal...

results among a total of 152 subjects, 82.9% were female and their mean age was 22.57 ± 1.55 years. according to the students, instructors had the weakest performance in the three items of teaching pharmacology and medication management based on the students’ learning needs, teaching medication management through a patient-centered method and teaching pharmacology and medication management base...

Health information systems, such as Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), are suggested to be used as an intervention for addressing errors that arise in the medication process. Nurses are involved in all stages of the medication process; however, little is known about the impact of using CPOE on nursing practice. A grounded theory approach was employed to answer the question of "How do nur...

recording nursing reports is considered as a quality assurance tool for patients and nurses. nowadays, the presence of electronic health record systems is an indicator of development. studies on advantages and disadvantages of the electronic and manual recording methods have shown different results. in this study, electronic and manual recording of nursing reports were compared from the perspec...

Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı; ülkemizde kullanılmakta olan Elektronik Belge Yönetim Sistemleri için bir kullanılabilirlik kontrol kriter listesi oluşturmaktır. Araştırmanın sorusu ise; “EBYS’nin işlevlerinin kurumsallığa katkıda bulunarak, daha verimli ve kullanılabilir olmasına yönelik rehber niteliğinde oluşturulabilir mi?” olarak belirlenmiştir.
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