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Michael Van Ornum, RPh, RN

As healthcare technology advances, health professionals who work with prescriptions or medical orders will need to learn about electronic prescribing soon. Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide explores how e-prescribing works, identifies features that help or hinder safe prescribing, and offers practical advice for implementing e-prescribing. Readers will learn to use electronic prescribing technology safely and effectively in the multi-disciplinary, complex environment of today's healthcare.

Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide is a clinician-level book that:

• focuses on safety issues encountered in everyday use of e-prescribing
• utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to patient safety that includes the perspectives of nurses, medical assistants, medical office managers, pharmacists, and software program designers
• dissects a freely accessible program, eRx NOW, to provide practical insight on present and potential features of e-prescribing
• discusses principles for reducing the potential for error in current and future e-prescribing systems
• identifies the workflow and patient safety challenges professionals encounter when working with e-prescribing and provides practical suggestions for meeting those challanges
• outlines a flexible plan for implementation that proactively addresses barriers

Published by Jones and Bartlett
P8493
ISBN:978-0-763758-49-3
2008;279 pages;softbound

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