Enterprise-wide drug-drug interaction alerting system.
According to the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 1999 report To Err is Human: Building a safer Health System, "medical errors kill some 44,000-98,0001 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Partners HealthCare System (PHS) is a large integrated delivery network in Boston, MA, which has as a goal improving patient care by preventing adverse drug events (ADE) and reducing medication errors enterprise-wide. PHS has developed a drug-drug Interaction (DDI) detection feature, for the suite of clinical applications currently used by its two major teaching institutions, Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH) and Mass General Hospital (MGH). The following clinical applications will be using this drug-drug interaction feature: NICU Order Entry (OE) at BWH, MGH OE for pediatrics and adults, the Partners outpatient medical record, The LMR, and BICS OE at BWH.
Greim
Julie A
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Department of IS, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Shek
Caroline
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Jones
Linda
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Macauley
Robert
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Paterno
Marilyn
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Blumenfeld
Barry H
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Kuperman
Gilad
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D000465:Algorithms; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D014584:User-Computer Interface