Save Development Time and Expense, and Help Reduce Prescribing Errors with an Extensive Set of Pre-Defined Drug Orders

Among the most common causes of Adverse Drug Events (ADE's) are errors in the prescription and transcription processes. These include miscalculation of drug doses, errors in decimal-point transcription, and—most notably—misinterpretation of the prescriber's handwriting. In addition, the chance of prescription errors increases dramatically as the number of available medications increases.

To help avoid these errors, First DataBank's Prescriber Order Entry Module allows your system to incorporate a convenient, easy-to-use pick list of clinically valid prescriptions. We create and maintain the pick lists, and enable the creation of prescriptions for outpatient environments.

Reduces Dosing Errors

This module enables your information system to provide a list of valid dosage prescriptions specific to drug, route of administration and medical condition. In addition, clinical context parameters can be linked to make prescriptions specific to patient variables, such as age and organ function. Checking patient-specific dosage range recommendations improves results, compared with using general population parameters. This reduces the leading category of medication errors, thus minimizing ADE's.

Fits Into Your Workflow

The Prescriber Order Entry Module's patient-specific dosing content integrates seamlessly into your workflow system, and can be used in combination with our Dosage Range Check Module for more complete drug screening. So there's no need to ask users to enter more data in order to check dosages, since these checks will be based on the data already available in your information system. That reduces interruptions for data entry, making users more productive and more satisfied with their system.

Advantages for Developers

Increasingly, healthcare organizations are turning to e-prescribing systems to help providers avoid errors at the prescribing stage of the drug delivery process. This module's drug database is designed to be a key component of these applications.

Designed for integration into the provider's workflow, the Prescriber Order Entry Module offers over 20,000 common prescriptions, covering thousands of drugs.

The ability to generate common prescriptions enables you to create prescription-writing applications more efficiently and cost-effectively. By starting with a set of pre-stored prescriptions, you can avoid the time and expense of building such databases yourself, or requiring your customers to do so. And since First DataBank creates and maintains this database, you can be more confident in the data, while focusing your development resources on building the best applications in your respective field.

Advantages for Providers

When this module is built into a prescription-writing system, you're prompted with a convenient pick list of common prescriptions specific to the drug formulation and intended route of administration. If desired, your system can allow the list of drugs to be filtered, using known patient information, such as medical condition.

In addition, as this database expands, you'll be able to select drugs based on such patient characteristics as age and normal or impaired organ function. Filtered lists present you with a smaller, more patient-specific set of medication alternatives. This reduces the possibility of a prescribing error, and simplifies the prescription process. This module also supplies duration-of-therapy information, which can be utilized when appropriate.

With the Prescriber Order Entry Module, you can create content that is resident on your own information system. This can include a default set of prescriptions independent of a given drug's indication, which you can then accept or reject. If you accept the default, the drug's standard prescriptions can be displayed. If you reject it, a list of the drug's prescriptions that are indication-specific can then be displayed.

Once the dose is selected, prescription quantities can be calculated and posted to the prescription record.

Detailed Dosage Information Provided

In general, this module includes prescribing information on adults with normal organ function, unless filtering is used; prescription sets appropriate for geriatric or pediatric patients are currently in development. As with all First DataBank products, this module is continually updated by our staff of clinicians to incorporate new drugs as soon as they are introduced.