How we introduced electronic prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rushika Patel explains how one of the UK's largest hospitals managed risk and rapidly changing clinical guidance to implement an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
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In 2018, Barts Health NHS Trust was one of 13 NHS trusts allocated funding to start implementing an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system. My colleagues and I were excited by how the new system would generate clinical data that allow prescribing trends to be analysed and create new pathways for auditing medication use.
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