Functional characteristics of commercial ambulatory electronic prescribing systems: a field study
Journal
J Am Med Inform Assoc
Publication Date
2005 May-Jun
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
346-56
Summary:
- HIT Description: Ambulatory electronic prescribing systems More info...
- Purpose of Study: compare the functional capabilities of commerical ambulatory electronic prescribing systems with a set of expert panel recommendations
- Years of study: Not Available
- Study Design: cross-sectional
- Outcomes: impact on patient safety and impact on health care effectiveness and quality
- Settings: sample of 10/29 eligible electronic prescribing systems that were currently being used in outpatient settings at a minimum of 50 sites or by a total of 1000 users
- Intervention: vendor interviews regarding the system and site visits to view each system
- Evaluation Method: comparison of system attributes to previously developed expert panel recommendations on capabilities of electronic prescribing systems
- Description: purposely sampled systems to include electronic health record (EHR) systems versus freestanding, non-EHR systems; web-based application service providers versus client-server systems; and applications available on a handheld platform versus those available only a desktop platform
- Quality of Care and Patient Safety Outcome: On average, the systems fully implemented 50% of the recommended capabilities (range 26-64%). Prescribing systems that were part of EHR systems tended to implement more recommendations.