Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Selects First DataBank’s OrderView to Simplify Discharge Prescriptions, Enhance Medication Reconciliation
San Bruno, CA – Feb 23, 2007
First DataBank, Inc. today announced that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and one of US News and World Report’s Best Hospitals, has licensed First DataBank’s OrderView Med Knowledge Base™. BIDMC expects that OrderView will simplify computerized physician order entry (CPOE) for discharge medications and, in doing so, broaden physician adoption of a technology widely acknowledged to improve patient safety. Thanks in part to its use of CPOE, BIDMC is one of 59 US hospitals named to the first Top Hospitals List issued by the Leap Frog Group, a national group of business leaders that aims to improve the quality, safety and affordability of healthcare.
“OrderView is precisely the kind of content we need to create a more effective, highly usable system that works the way physicians work,” said Larry Markson, Director of Development for BIDMC. “Initially we will use OrderView to take ordering discharge medications down to a few easy steps, enhancing the ease of use of this module, making the conversion from inpatient medications to discharge medications more accurate and, therefore, improving medication reconciliation at discharge.”
Supporting Patient Safety
Saving lives and preventing harm to patients by reducing medication ordering errors is one of our primary aims,” said Don Nielsen, MD and CEO of First DataBank. “When world renowned research hospitals like BIDMC license OrderView to broaden CPOE functionality, it is a powerful testament to the value First Databank offers healthcare facilities in their missions to increase patient safety.”
OrderView content extends CPOE capabilities and promotes accuracy by providing validated dose and frequency selections proactively. This approach contrasts favorably with a warning message – after the fact – that a dose might not be appropriate, which can contribute to alert fatigue on the part of the users.
In addition, OrderView’s pre-built medication orders are tailored to physician workflow and support considerations like prn reasons, special instructions, dose adjustments for organ impairment, mg/kg calculations, rounding increments, and pediatric and discharge orders. The selections also provide translation to discharge prescriptions and patient instructions, a place where medication reconciliation plays a prominent role.
Medication reconciliation – the process of identifying the list of all medications a patient is taking and using this list to check for such things as duplicate medications, incompatible drugs, or wrong dosages for patients anywhere within the healthcare system – is one of the most pressing patient safety issues that CPOE can help address. Since First DataBank’s team of clinical pharmacists continually researches and compiles valid prescriptions – including patient medications not usually found on formulary – hospitals can save time and money by having a ready reference source of all a patients’ medications. .
“At BIDMC, we’ve earned a reputation for developing and integrating highly effective technology that supports exemplary patient safety efforts,” said Markson. “Leveraging OrderView from a trusted partner that we’ve worked with for many years fits in perfectly with that history.”
About Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and ranks third in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center, is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.harvard.edu.
About First DataBank
First DataBank, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the leading provider of electronic drug information to the healthcare industry. We pioneered the concept of creating executable drug knowledge that's designed to be relevant from the perspectives of multiple end users. For more than two decades, we've partnered with information system developers to deliver proven knowledge bases for integration into a wide range of applications all across the healthcare continuum, with particular expertise in clinical decision support within the workflow. Together with our development partners, First DataBank helps reduce the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events, which promises to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care. For more information, visit: www.firstdatabank.com.
© 2007, First DataBank, Inc. A subsidiary of Hearst Corporation. All trademarks mentioned herein are the properties of their respective owners.
Contact Information
Back to Press Releases