High Risk Medication Remote Surveillance Pharmacist

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Initiative Type

Model of Care

Status

Deliver

Added

02 May 2018

Last updated

20 June 2019

Summary

Proactive surveillance of high risk medication orders contributed to the safe implementation of the digital hospital iEMR.

Key dates

Jan 2017

Jan 2018

Implementation sites

Logan and Beaudesert Hospitals

Aim

To prevent medication misadventure and patient harm during the implementation of the digital hospital iEMR.

Benefits

Prevention of patient harm or misadventure through identifying potential system issues related to high risk medication ordering and administration.

Background

Logan and Beaudesert Hospital undertook a full stack go-live for iEMR.

Solutions Implemented

A senior clinical pharmacist trained in how to utilise the high risk category pharmacist worklist conducted twice daily audits of high risk medications during the formal digital go live. Post digital go live auditing was conducted once daily. The High Risk Medication Remote Surveillance Pharmacist contributed to the safe implementation of a full stack digital go-live.

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