Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Clinical Applications To Offer Computerized Support to Physicians

Clinical application is a computerized support system for physicians. This support system offers a quick and easy view of the patients’ information whenever and where-ever a physician requires. Through clinical application, physicians can order the entries of their patients along with their health records in order to prevent adverse drug events in long-term care.

This way, the physicians can have a single unique platform to use as well as to manage patients’ health records and offer them accurate and suitable care as-and-when they require. Computerized Physician Order Entry, abbreviated as CPOE, facilitates Physicians to make proper entries of the orders for any kind of lab test, diagnostic images, meds and other related services offered within the hospital settings.

It has been suggested that there are immense chances to improve the drug safety using CPOE with clinical decision support, which is abbreviated as CDS. Such improvements will prove helpful for long-term cases.

Physicians use clinical applications to enter prescriptions of patients, directly into their computer systems. Through this application an immediate feedback can be received about the clinically important information, which may help physicians to improve their prescribing decision.

For instance, if any physician enters an order for any required drug for such a patient who is already taking same kind of medication, the CDS system would show a warning nudge to the physician about the potential for over-sedation, confusion and falls. On the top of this, the system would also advice the physician about the requirement of evaluating each psychoactive medication. It will indicate the already prescribed medicines and will suggest to prescribe the lowest feasible dose of the new drug.

These days there are a number of software companies emerging, offering Clinical Applications. These software companies are coming up with the teams of experts developing clinical applications.

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