DocumentCode
2000571
Title
The Use of Health Smart Card in Bridging Discontinuity of Care for Pregnant Woman
Author
Long, An-Jim ; Chang, Polun
Author_Institution
Inst. of Public Health Inst. of Biomed. Inf., Nat. Yang-Ming Univ., Yang-Ming
fYear
2009
fDate
27-29 April 2009
Firstpage
1492
Lastpage
1497
Abstract
This research proposed an innovative way of protecting pregnant woman from potential risky drugs by implementing clinical reminder system based on health smart card. A computerized risky drug reminders system for pregnant woman on the computerized physician order entry (CPOE) was implemented. During the study period, there were 1106 pregnant women visits and ranged in age from 15 to 50 years. Significant effect in physicianspsila specialty, seriousness of risky drugs, and trimesters of pregnant woman were found. X category drugs are observed with more relevant to the clinical settings and with higher acceptance rate (22.39%). Physicians other than obstetrics and gynecology, dermatologist, endocrinologist are with higher acceptance to the reminders (46%). Pregnant woman in first trimester (19.39%) are with more concerns and also with highest acceptance rate on the risky drug reminders.
Keywords
information filters; medical computing; smart cards; clinical reminder system; computerized physician order entry; computerized risky drug reminders system; health smart card; potential risky drugs; pregnant woman; Animals; Biomedical computing; Drugs; Fetus; Information technology; Medical diagnostic imaging; Physics computing; Pregnancy; Safety; Smart cards; CPOE; Health smart card; continuity of care; patient safety; reminder system;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Technology: New Generations, 2009. ITNG '09. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3770-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-7695-3596-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ITNG.2009.301
Filename
5070838
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