| Do you expect hospital work to be impeccable? | | | | - Attaining medical history from multiple sources |
| We go to hospitals to better our state; we rely | | | | - Dealing with inefficient maintenance of |
| on hospitals and doctors to practice the most | | | | medication reconciliation paper trail |
| advanced standards. A hospital staff faces a | | | | - Writing discharge medication orders that are |
| number of challenges on a daily basis. They need | | | | "formulary compliant" |
| highly-efficient software and equipment to | | | | - Meeting joint commission requirements |
| address their job requirements. Electronic | | | | Solutions offered via electronic prescribing |
| prescribing software helps them meet the | | | | software |
| demands of the hospital setting. | | | | Doctors and hospitals need robust, Web-based |
| Challenges relating to medication reconciliation | | | | medical reconciliation software. An electronic |
| Doctors need to know a patient's medicinal | | | | prescription system can handle data issues. |
| history before properly treating them. This is not | | | | Software can collect, display, and document |
| always an easy task for physicians and their | | | | medical information about the patients, beginning |
| cohorts. Patients may lack knowledge regarding | | | | from admission through patient discharge. |
| their medication details. In addition, patients may | | | | Furthermore, information can be stored for future |
| have multiple healthcare providers as well as be | | | | needs. |
| receiving medications prescribed from multiple | | | | Current electronic prescribing software can |
| sources. It can be difficult for hospitals to gather | | | | provide a lot of benefits to a hospital and its staff. |
| all necessary information for one patient. | | | | Some models can be integrated into an existing |
| Doctors and hospital staff are susceptible to | | | | healthcare information system (HCIS) or used |
| medicine-related issues such as: | | | | alone to improve and maintain patient information. |