TY - GEN
T1 - Pharmacy interweaving safety within hospital health information technology
AU - Lichtner, Valentina
AU - Westbrook, Johanna I.
AU - Franklin, Bryony Dean
N1 - Copyright the Author(s) and IOS Press 2018. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Research on the impact of hospital technology on medication safety usually focuses on prescribing and administration. Less is known about the pharmacy-related processes of reviewing, ordering and dispensing medications and how technology supports this work. We carried out a qualitative exploratory study of a hospital in England (UK) with the aim of gaining insight into processes of digitalisation. We found that hospital pharmacy staff perform safety work with technology aiming to prevent harm, such as 'scaffolding' people's thinking processes, or linking-up unintegrated systems. Their work seems to 'interweave' safety in between others' medication activities, but they do so sometimes struggling with technological deficiencies.
AB - Research on the impact of hospital technology on medication safety usually focuses on prescribing and administration. Less is known about the pharmacy-related processes of reviewing, ordering and dispensing medications and how technology supports this work. We carried out a qualitative exploratory study of a hospital in England (UK) with the aim of gaining insight into processes of digitalisation. We found that hospital pharmacy staff perform safety work with technology aiming to prevent harm, such as 'scaffolding' people's thinking processes, or linking-up unintegrated systems. Their work seems to 'interweave' safety in between others' medication activities, but they do so sometimes struggling with technological deficiencies.
KW - Hospital Pharmacy
KW - Medication Safety
KW - Patient Safety
KW - Technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056393608&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-890-7-105
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-890-7-105
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
C2 - 30040691
AN - SCOPUS:85056393608
SN - 9781614998891
VL - 252
T3 - Studies in health technology and informatics
SP - 105
EP - 111
BT - Connecting the System to Enhance the Practitioner and Consumer Experience in Healthcare
A2 - Cummings, Elizabeth
A2 - Ryan, Angela
A2 - Schaper, Louise K.
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam
T2 - 26th Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2018)
Y2 - 29 July 2018 through 1 August 2018
ER -