Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

e-Prescribing in the LTC Setting

• Three way communication: prescriber, nurse, pharmacy
• Resident is not a patient
  • SCRIPT adjustments for unit/room/bed, resident, facility information
• Medications are delivered
  • Communicate admission and discharge information to the pharmacy (new census message)
• Medication "chart" orders are open-ended
  • Orders need to be cancelled or discontinued
• Facility needs to know the medication was actually dispensed
• Resupply requests represent 80% of LTC orders
  • Resupply message