End-user development is a new trend to provide tailored services to dynamic environments such as hospitals. These services not only facilitate daily work for pharmacy personnel but also improve self-care in elder people that are still related to hosp...
International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
30007301
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the return on investment (ROI) and quality improvement after implementation of a centralized automated-dispensing system after 8 years of use.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
31390471
BACKGROUND: Drug prescription errors are made, worldwide, on a daily basis, resulting in a high burden of morbidity and mortality. Existing rule-based systems for prevention of such errors are unsuccessful and associated with substantial burden of fa...
Allergy mention normalization is challenging because of the wide range of possible allergens including medications, foods, plants, animals, and consumer products. This paper describes the process of mapping free-text allergy information from an elect...
BACKGROUND: Issuing of correct prescriptions is a foundation of patient safety. Medication errors represent one of the most important problems in health care, with 'look-alike and sound-alike' (LASA) being the lead error. Existing solutions to preven...
The International journal of pharmacy practice
32430998
OBJECTIVES: To explore factors influencing hospital pharmacy staff acceptance of a pharmacy robotic dispensing system during implementation and over time.
American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
39330997
PURPOSE: To determine the impact of implementing 2 technologies in succession, the Carousel system and XR2 robot, in a hospital central pharmacy. The study examined the technologies' impact on workload shifted from fully human-involved, labor-intensi...