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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIntegrating electronic prescribing into our Alcidion EPR, joins up drug information with patient assessments, allergies, lab results, vital signs and more. This provides a safety barrier that will help prescribers make better informed decisions for patients. It will also save valuable time for clinicians, for example, through easy access to standardised order sets and the ability to prescribe from anywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cElectronic discharge will also become much easier for doctors. Rather than having to manually transcribe medicines, staff just open a discharge letter in Miya Precision, and all the drugs for a patient appear. This reduces the risk of errors and represents an improvement in patient safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trust will now benefit from a better audit trail of every medication dose administered, and staff across wards will gain easier visibility of when medicines are due for patients. \u201cSome medicines require administration within a strict timeframe, for example, drugs related to Parkinson\u2019s disease,\u201d said Pugh. \u201cWe will be able to monitor that and many other scenarios. Trend analysis will allow us to easily identify any potential issues early so we can act swiftly and provide more resources to a ward when needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Codified data will also support the trust in financial reporting, so that it can more easily link medicines to specific patients and reclaim money that can be reinvested into patient care.<\/p>\n
The ePMA implementation epresents an important step on the trust\u2019s journey through stages of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. A whole range of additional functionality will complement the go-live as the trust continues to progress its deployment of Miya Precision.<\/p>\n
Dr Andrew Adair, chief clinical information officer, at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: \u201cE-prescribing is the latest important step on our modular EPR journey, that is allowing us to move at pace towards the highest levels of digital maturity through technology that people want to use.<\/p>\n
\u201cBetter Meds is highly synergistic with our Alcidion Miya Precision system \u2013 and will integrate closely with e-noting, e-observations, patient flow journey boards and more, in ways that reduce the cognitive load for clinicians by making information useful and supporting clinical decisions. Responsibility for prescribing decisions still rests with the clinician, but they will no longer need to manually manage every detail and every process about medicines, conflicts and interactions, guidance and more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roko Malko\u010d, business unit director, Better Meds, added: \u201cSouth Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shown high digital transformation maturity, resulting from the excellent internal alignment driven by an experienced team. We believe that collaboration with Alcidion in the trust will bring direct benefits with real-time access to all healthcare data for caregivers. Both encourage us to follow our vision of medication management without errors.\u201d<\/p>\n
This deployment represents the first NHS trust to implement an ePMA module as part of an Alcidion EPR programme.<\/p>\n
Lynette Ousby, UK managing director for Alcidion, said: \u201cDigitisation in healthcare should be about using technology to respond to clinical and operational priorities in the right order for NHS customers. In this case, e-prescribing will help staff to safely get the right medicines to the right patient, at the right time. South Tees Hospitals is a strong example of a trust that is delivering technology to respond to the needs of its clinicians. Doing that effectively requires flexibility from technology providers and a willingness to work together. It\u2019s really rewarding to see the benefits of a modern, modular approach to digitisation working so well in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kate Quirke, CEO for Alcidion, said: \u201cI\u2019m impressed by the speed at which South Tees Hospitals is progressing its digital journey, and by the enthusiasm for digital transformation at all levels of the organisation. I look forward to seeing the impact of this latest stage of the trust\u2019s programme, and to further developments in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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