Electronic prescribing within the context of the NHS Care Records
Service: an opportunity for new computing?
Whatever difficulties and challenges face us, we mustn’t lose sight
of the fact that deploying IT is about enabling clinicians to make
better use of information and the subsequent release of resources,
says Will Willson.
keywords: electronic
prescribing, pharmacists’ roles, national programme for it in the nhs.
abstract
The imposition of the Care Records Service on the NHS in England is
an opportunity for the current practice of healthcare to evolve. But,
given the approach that has been adopted, the culture of the
organisation and the suppliers providing the solutions, will this
become a reality? This article looks briefly at some of the concepts
involved in implementing clinical IT and specifically at the
implications for hospital pharmacy, based on a pilot exercise
undertaken in 2001–2.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2004; 21(2): 38–40.
