HOSPITALS
— how many times to take it each day . Meanwhile , pharmacists are accustomed to viewing orders by the strength or amount of dosage in the capsule , and are more concerned with inventory management and how the drug arrives from the distributor . Most of this is due to pharmacy systems in hospitals becoming computerized before electronic health records ( EHRs ).
A successful order entry system allows physicians to search and order medications in a dose-centric manner that they ’ re familiar with .
“ It ’ s a nuance , but a successful order entry system will allow physicians to search and order medications in a dose-centric manner they ’ re familiar with ,” said Robinson . “ Some of the challenges over time were early physician order-entry systems may have tried to throw that pharmacist view on a physician .”
A new era for EHR Robinson said these physician ordering systems have since transformed considerably over the past 20 years .
10 March 2016