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Electronic Medicines Management: Support for Professional Practice

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The changing role of the various professions in the health services provides implementers of EP systems with the challenge of how professional roles are recognized and regulated within an EP system. This will be discussed further in Chap. 7, concerning the use of EP systems by non-medical prescribers. However, if systems are to be accepted by users, designers and implementers will also need to consider how EP systems will support, or can be configured to support, the needs of healthcare professionals in their everyday practice.

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    For example, with nurse prescribers. See Courtenay et al. [1].

  2. 2.

    The attitudes of nursing staff were noted as being a key factor in the adoption of the Winchester EP system (see Case Study in Chap. 2).

  3. 3.

    This was found to be a key user requirement at Winchester. Also, at Burton on Trent, the fact that system screens looked like forms that staff were already familiar with was an important factor in the acceptance of the system.

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Goundrey-Smith, S. (2012). Electronic Medicines Management: Support for Professional Practice. In: Principles of Electronic Prescribing. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4045-0_6

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