This article informs how Duke University Hospital and McKesson have developed a solution to simplify complex drug dosing. McKesson has announced the introduction of its new Advanced Dosing functionality for Horizon Expert Orders, McKesson's clinical decision support (CDS) and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system to help increase the accuracy and safety of medication prescribing for high-risk, complex patients.
Duke believes that the Advanced Dosing solution can aid pediatric and neonatal units where specialized approaches to weight and age-based dosing are required. Small miscalculations in these units can cause significant problems. Inputting relevant criteria into the system at the time of ordering reduces the cognitive burden on prescribers. This burden has been created from the increase in number of drugs along with the increasing volume and complexity of drug information. These systems span virtually all settings of healthcare and are used with more than 50 million clinical transactions per week. McKesson has lead major breakthroughs in patient safety and was the first to introduce a point-of-care-bar-code medication administration solution which prevents more than 700,000 medication errors weekly.
As an employee of McKesson, I am a close witness of what amount of energy and focus is directed toward these information systems. We are constantly educated and trained on how these systems can benefit hospitals. I have had a few clients that have purchased these systems and they feel that have made a good investment. Here is a link to where I point my clients in regard to our patient and medication safety products.
Our Horizon Expert Orders™ software solution was created by clinicians for clinicians to specifically address the common barriers to physician adoption of computerized physician order entry (CPOE), focusing on the clinical decision-making process instead of order entry. McKesson’s Horizon Expert Orders solution features proven clinical content driven through a simple clinical interface and intuitive workflow that supports the way physicians practice medicine. The benefits from this systems include; overcoming traditional barriers to physician adoption, delivering real-time clinical decision support, and improving patient safety.
Physicians Get Help in Safe Medication Prescribing. (3 March). Business Wire. Retrieved May 14, 2008, from ProQuest Newsstand database.
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