WEB BASED SYSTEM ELECTRONIC

PRESCRIPTION PROCESS
FOR AMBO REFFERAL HOSPITAL

Prepared By UNITY Group

Introduction…..
Prescription is task of a doctor in which it is the process of giving
treatment to the diseases. This process involves analyzing and writing
patient history or patient chief compliance, writing diagnose, give
appropriate treatment (Rx) to the diagnosed diseases, making some
calculation of dosage specially for pediatrics, analyzing drug
appropriateness (contraindication, indication, allergy, and extra), and
finally transmitting the treatment to the dispenser.
Introduction…..
As study reveal a lots of deaths occur each year in the world due to
medication errors. Even if we do not get any study in Ethiopia it can
be deduced that many people’s die each year in our county. This
problem makes us to look very carefully and to explore out how to
solve these problems and how to improve it using technology and by
applying computer applications concepts on current prescription
process in order to change that manual process in to moderate
electronic form.
Introduction
Current systems for prescribing and administration of medicines in
Ambo referral hospital are based on a model established over 46 years
ago. Since then medications used have grown in number and
complexity, with a resulting potential for greater risk to patients. The
current system has the following problem
 Service related problems
 Registration related problems
 Generating report
 Storage
What is Electronic prescription ?
E-prescription is the processing of a drug prescription in an electronic
form, starting from the medical professional prescribing the drug and
ending with the actual dispensing to the patient, including the process
of drug selection and demand, with the data always stored
electronically.
E-Prescription is a tool for prescribers to electronically send an
accurate, error-free and understandable prescription directly to a
pharmacy from the point-of-care.
Kilbridge and Dladysheva define e-Prescribing as “entering a
prescription for a medication into an automated data entry system
(handheld, PC, or other), and thereby generating a prescription
electronically, instead of handwriting the prescription on paper”
(Kilbridge & Dladysheva 2001).
General Objective of the projects
Project Team has the general objective of developing the new web
based electronic prescription system for Ambo referral hospital that
can address the problem with the current system mentioned above.
Convert manual system prescription process and explore out to a
system that is a tool for prescribers to electronically send an accurate,
error-free and understandable prescription directly to a pharmacy
from the point-of-care.
Specific Objective of the projects…
For the purpose of achieving the above objective the following specific
objectives are identified
• Reviewing the current system to the problem
• Study each activity of the current system to identify the problem
• Identify problems of the existing system
• Suggest alternative solution to address the existing problem
• creating a model
Specific Objective of the projects
• designing system architecture of the system
• testing the operation of system
• documenting the whole system
• designing user friendly interface
• designing back end database that can hold all the
information
• To generate report done on the system.
Scope of the projects
Our developed E-prescription system will have functionality for
entering prescription for a medication in to an automated data entry
system (especially pc, desktop and tablets).
generating a prescription electronically, instead of handwriting the
prescription on paper.
Developing a tool which allows the patient to improve the safety
through electronically checking patient allergies contraindication etc.
security and accuracy of his prescriptions, save his time during
handling prescription renewals by making it electronically with his
pharmacy.
Generally, The system is designed:
 To allow The prescriber to generate a complete active medication list
incorporating electronic data received from pharmacy about medicine,
from porter (nurse) about patient demography and if the patient is out
patient about patient history.
To allow the subscriber to Select medications, printing prescriptions,
electronically transmitting prescriptions .
To allow the subscriber to conducting all safety checks (safety checks
include: automated prompts that offer information on the drug being
prescribed, potential inappropriate dose or route of administration, drug-
drug interactions, allergy concerns, or warnings or cautions).
In addition to this the system designed to provide information related to
the availability of lower cost, therapeutically appropriate alternatives (if
any).
significance of the project
Our E-Prescribing system can deliver benefits for those who prescribe, administer,
screen and dispense medication, as well as those who need to see medication
records on a “read only” basis.
During Prescribing
• When prescribing, the system can help in a number of ways and various situations:
• Providing prescribers with access to decision support .
• Allowing access to electronic patient records (as well as medication records) .
• Removing the need to rewrite medication charts, and the associated potential for
transcription errors .
• Supporting direct communication of prescribing information to pharmacy and
other departments .
• Allowing the easy and direct production of discharge prescriptions
Review and dispensing of medication

Our system can have significant positive consequences for pharmacists

as they check (“screen”) medication orders, correct errors and follow up
queries has the following benefit:
 Access to electronic patient records specifically patient demography
information and Allowing easy review of previous medication history
 Many basic prescribing errors (missing information, transcription
errors from one chart to another, prescribing doses that are not
possible with the dosage forms available etc.) are likely to be
prevented and will not need to be corrected
 Identification of each individual prescriber to allow follow up of
queries
Viewing medication records
Our system can help by:
• Allowing easy review of current and previous medication history
• Access to electronic patient records specifically patient demographic
information (as well as medication records)
• Removing the problem of missing drug charts or not being able to
access those that are in use by other healthcare professionals
Communication between all prescription stakeholders
Supporting the transfer of information’s from dispenser to prescriber,
administrator and porter between leader and member.
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