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E-prescribing systems can enhance an overall medication management process through clinical decision support systems that can perform checks against the patient's current medications for drug-drug interactions, drug-allergy interactions, diagnoses, body weight, age, drug appropriateness, and correct dosing.
The NHS Electronic Prescription Service is part of the NHS National Programme for IT of the National Health Service in England.It enables the electronic transfer of medical prescriptions from doctors (or other prescribers) to pharmacies and other dispensers and electronic notification to the reimbursement agency, NHS Prescription Services.
The MHRA and the US Food and Drug Administration were criticised in the 2012 book Bad Pharma, [43] and in 2004 by David Healy in evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee, [44] for having undergone regulatory capture, i.e. advancing the interests of the drug companies rather than the interests of the public.
The British National Formulary (BNF) is a United Kingdom (UK) pharmaceutical reference book that contains a wide spectrum of information and advice on prescribing and pharmacology, along with specific facts and details about many medicines available on the UK National Health Service (NHS).
A patient has a life-threatening condition and is expected to live on average for one year receiving the current best treatment which costs the NHS £3,000. A new drug becomes available that will extend the life of the patient by three months and improve his or her quality of life, but the new treatment will cost the NHS more than three times ...
Among its programmes, products and services were ERDIP, Read Codes, the NHS's contribution to SNOMED development, Pathology Messaging, NHSnet, the NHS-wide private computer network designed to enable NHS bodies to communicate securely, the Exeter system, a suite of computer programs used by Health Authorities for many purposes, NHS Numbers for Babies ("NN4B"), the National electronic Library ...
The earliest reported drug checking service is the Drug Information and Monitoring System (DIMS) [6] in the Netherlands supported by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Since 1992 the service has tested over 100,000 drug samples at a national network of twenty-three testing facilities.
The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals, more commonly known by its abbreviation CPS, [1] is a reference book that contains drug monographs and numerous features which help healthcare professionals prescribe and use drugs safely and appropriately.