Anticlue

Mediation Administration and Decision Support

Just automating a process, may still have the affects of the manual process. A recent study by the Archives of Internal Medicine examined the type and frequency of inpatient adverse drug events across the implementation of many clinical systems including a computerized physician order entry system. The finding is again non-spectacular and very common sense based. Just placing a system in place alone doesn’t reduce the adverse drug events, one needs to provide information where there are troublesome aspects of the medication administration process. This type of information comes from a decision support system.

This is very basic, if you have a process in place, and you only perform automation of that process by implementing the system. There will be minimal business improvements, because at this point in the game, one only has data. Making the data into information that improves the business.