This appeared a few days ago:
26 Jul 2019 2:31 PM AEST
Digitally empowered pharmacists to lead the way in medicine safety
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) today released its digital health report Connecting the dots: Digitally empowered pharmacists.
The report, funded by the Australian Digital Health Agency, describes how digital health initiatives and technological transformation will empower pharmacists to be more accountable and responsible for medicine safety and efficacy.
PSA National President Dr Chris Freeman said the transformation to a more digital workplace was long overdue.
Medicine-related problems cause 250,000 hospital admissions and 400,000 emergency department presentations in Australia each year, costing the healthcare system $1.4 billion annually.
"Gaps in information and time delays in accessing important information are the two most significant factors contributing to medicine misadventure," he said.
"This transformation will connect the dots of a currently fragmented health system, where health professionals such as pharmacists have had to make health decisions without accessing sometimes critical health information."
The Australian Digital Health Agency’s program of work, particularly in medicine safety, will drive this transformation. This program of work strongly aligns with system changes needed to achieve the outcomes identified in the PSA’s Pharmacists in 2023 report.
Key projects which will transform care include: electronic prescriptions; real-time prescription monitoring; pharmacist input into My Health Record; enhanced incident reporting capabilities, improving pharmacovigilance; and improved medicine information for consumers.
The Australian Digital Health Agency’s Chief Clinical Health Information Officer, Angela Ryan, says increasing the safe and quality use of medicines is a priority area of the National Digital Health Strategy, approved by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Health Council in 2017.
“All healthcare providers, including pharmacists, GPs and specialists, play a role in supporting the safe use of medicines by their patients. The Australian Digital Health Agency is collaborating with governments and industry on digital solutions that will support healthcare providers to manage their patients’ medicines," she said.
Connecting the Dots: Digitally empowered pharmacists provides readers with multiple case examples which describe a ‘new normal’ of seamless healthcare, protecting medicine safety, backed by the power of digital health. These examples will help pharmacists understand the digital transformation which is taking place and contextualise them to real, tangible patient examples.
Here is the link to the press release:
The report, funded by the Australian Digital Health Agency, describes how digital health initiatives and technological transformation will empower pharmacists to be more accountable and responsible for medicine safety and efficacy.
PSA National President Dr Chris Freeman said the transformation to a more digital workplace was long overdue.
Medicine-related problems cause 250,000 hospital admissions and 400,000 emergency department presentations in Australia each year, costing the healthcare system $1.4 billion annually.
"Gaps in information and time delays in accessing important information are the two most significant factors contributing to medicine misadventure," he said.
"This transformation will connect the dots of a currently fragmented health system, where health professionals such as pharmacists have had to make health decisions without accessing sometimes critical health information."
The Australian Digital Health Agency’s program of work, particularly in medicine safety, will drive this transformation. This program of work strongly aligns with system changes needed to achieve the outcomes identified in the PSA’s Pharmacists in 2023 report.
Key projects which will transform care include: electronic prescriptions; real-time prescription monitoring; pharmacist input into My Health Record; enhanced incident reporting capabilities, improving pharmacovigilance; and improved medicine information for consumers.
The Australian Digital Health Agency’s Chief Clinical Health Information Officer, Angela Ryan, says increasing the safe and quality use of medicines is a priority area of the National Digital Health Strategy, approved by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Health Council in 2017.
“All healthcare providers, including pharmacists, GPs and specialists, play a role in supporting the safe use of medicines by their patients. The Australian Digital Health Agency is collaborating with governments and industry on digital solutions that will support healthcare providers to manage their patients’ medicines," she said.
Connecting the Dots: Digitally empowered pharmacists provides readers with multiple case examples which describe a ‘new normal’ of seamless healthcare, protecting medicine safety, backed by the power of digital health. These examples will help pharmacists understand the digital transformation which is taking place and contextualise them to real, tangible patient examples.
Here is the link to the press release:
The report is another great marketing effort from an army of PSA and ADHA staff – is full of pictures about how wonderful it will all be, but is a bit thin on the ground when it comes to risks, safely and costs.
Of course it is all based on the #myHR as a core information source and the third manifestation of a medication list.
Of course the report was sponsored by the ADHA!
Have a read and let us all know what you think!
David.
2 comments:
Thanks David, lots of ‘ensure’, ‘align’ etc.. but no use of ‘reduce’ so I am struggling with the question - “why”
Also how is this addressing - “Medicine-related problems cause 250,000 hospital admissions and 400,000 emergency department presentations in Australia each year, costing the healthcare system $1.4 billion annually.”
I might have missed the measurable regrets page, but surely it should say “reducing medical-related problems by 20, 30, 70%
Otherwise “Why” bother
Not knocking everyone’s efforts just pointing out those at the coal face are being let down again
David said "Of course it is all based on the #myHR as a core information source"
which it isn't. A patient's Myhr will not contain any history until someone starts useing it and even then, unless the patient is very keen, the only history will be from that date.
And the scenario painted in the PSA's marketing blurb shows the myhe as being used as a communication tool, which the government said it shouldn't be and was never designed to be.
There's a huge gap between what the ADHA, PSA and AMA claim is in myhr, how it works and how it can be used, and reality.
The big question is: do these people not know they don't understand the system, or are they deliberately misrepresenting it?
Neither answer is good.
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