Understanding ePrescribing

  1. Presentation giving a detailed introduction to Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Management including the main issues and common pitfalls.
  2. Why we need ePrescribing
  3. ePrescribing background presentation from ePrescribing Conference, March 2012.
  4. Literature Overview of ePrescribing: Chapter on ePrescribing from the Final Report from the NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme, The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Healthcare.
  5. Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Report: http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/safer-hosp-safer-wards.pdf
  6. Report on medicine management in hospitals – A spoonful of sugar
  7. Systematic Review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing medication errors.
  8. Presentation with facts and information providing a good overview of ePrescribing
  9. Briefing documents for: nurses, doctors, pharmacistsIM&Tsenior executives and ePrescribing implementation teams.
  10. ePrescribing report and presentation on the challenges of ePrescribing from Connecting for Health.
  11. Presentation on English Health Informatics and Relevance to ePrescribing by Bruce Warner, ePrescribing National Symposium, June 2013, London.
  12. Overview of ePrescribing in secondary care
  13. Examples of a Nurse Administration survey and Prescribers survey questions from Southampton
  14. Article on Reducing medication error through e-Prescribing: http://www.uspharmacist.com/content/s/266/c/42352/
  15. Systematic Review of Literature 2000 to 2014
  16. Oregon Health & Science University Clinfowiki – ePrescribing
  17. Article on safety around e-Prescribing and local information required by the Medicines Safety Officer.  This is in Supporting Safer Medication – Chapter 8 ‘Electronic prescribing for safer injectable therapy’ written by Ann Slee and Keith Farrar.


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