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Driving Quality and Safety
with EPS.
Emma Suggett
Principal Pharmacist Governance
Medication Safety Officer
University Hospital Birmingham
Workshop Aims • Differences between eP and CDSS
• Our Experience at UHB
• Pharmacy benefits for Quality and Safety of eP
and CDSS
• Are you an eP Pharmacist?
17th May 2013
“This will primarily be used for
electronic prescribing”
Definitions • Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration
(EPMA)
– Electronic management throughout
– eP or Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
• Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
– Enhances health-related decisions and actions
– Clinical Rules based on evidence / local knowledge-base
Health Information Technology
at UHBFT
In prescribing terms -
Basic Benefits
• Basic Benefits
– Legibility
– Accessibility
– Basic parameters
– → Reduce errors due to erroneous or absent information
Expert Error Surveillance
• Expert error detection
– Rules based surveillance with alerts outside order
entry
– → Reduce errors of omission or commission
Alerts & Controls
Antibiotic Stewardship
5 days
Time to do some Work……
Complete Warning Levels:
For Contraindications, Cautions and Interactions.
0 = Information Only
1 = Tick Box
2 = Password
3 = Absolute Disallow