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The future
Published in Christine Bond, Ann Lewis, Using Medicines Information, 2018
Christine Bond, Christine Clarke
Computerised pharmacy stock control systems of yesteryear allowed identification of which products had been issued to which wards. This was useful for product recalls and for simple analyses of prescribing trends. However, pharmacy IT systems that are an integral part of the hospital IT systems can offer much more. In the first place, there are considerable benefits for day-to-day running of the pharmacy; for example, patient details can be drawn directly from the patient administration system (PAS) instead of being rekeyed by pharmacy staff. This saves time and avoids the risks of transcription errors. Clinical pharmacists can also check laboratory tests online before issuing or prescribing a drug. Recent developments, such as the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) mean that clinical images (X-rays, scans, photographs) are also available to authorised users.
Shared care – current aspects
Published in Peter Edwards, Stephen Jones, Dennis Shale, Mark Thursz, Shared Care, 2018
Peter Edwards, Stephen Jones, Dennis Shale, Mark Thursz
Regard was taken of other relevant computerized record systems being developed, such as PAS (Patient Administration System), so that, in due course, the information could be easily married into other clinical and administrative systems. Also, in the development stage, other diabetic monitoring packages, such as those being proposed for hospital audit by the BDA and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), were considered with the view to seamless integration with other system developments in Europe. The fundamental difference, however, was the input from the practice and the community, as well as the hospital.
Information technology (IT)
Published in Nassab Reza, Rajaratnam Vaikunthan, Loh Michael, B. Sonny Bal, Applying MBA Knowledge and Skills to Healthcare, 2017
Nassab Reza, Rajaratnam Vaikunthan, Loh Michael, B. Sonny Bal
In the initial phase of IT in healthcare, its use had been confined mainly to administrative purposes, like the Patient Administration System (PAS) in the NHS. PAS was, and continues to be, a computerised system that records patient activity relating to appointments, waiting lists, and case note tracking. It also has the capability to generate reports for local and Department of Health managers detailing waiting times, bed occupancy, and other recordable information for target achievement analysis.
Less prevalent use of biologics for inflammatory bowel disease in patients from Non-Academic hospitals – a Danish register-based study of a region with 580,000 citizens
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2023
Anne Lund Krarup, Lone Larsen, Alev Büyükuslu Nayeb, Simon Grøntved, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Mette Esbjørn, Jan Fallingborg, Gunnar Lauge Nielsen, Kristine Allin, Tine Jess, Anne Estrup Olesen
Data from the three hospitals was made available from the Department of Business Intelligence in The North Denmark Region. More specifically, data was retrieved from the Patient Administration System (PAS) storing all data from hospital care in the region. We included all patients with a postal address in the North Denmark Region who had been recorded with an IBD diagnosis according to the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD10; Crohn’s disease, K50; ulcerative colitis, K51) in an out-patient or in-patient setting at one of the three hospitals in the region during 2016–2018. The region has no private gastroenterology clinics and all possible IBD patients in the region was included this way. Patients with a diagnosis of unclassified IBD or inflammatory polyps only (subcode K51.4) and patients receiving treatment with biologics for concomitant inflammatory disorders (rheumatological or dermatological) were excluded. The medical records of deceased patients were manually evaluated to evaluate if the causes were bowel related.