• 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