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First DataBank wins contract with Australian government organisation
14 November 2009
First DataBank (FDB) has today announced a new partnership with an Australian government organisation, Hunter New England Health (HNEH). As part of a HNEH wide strategy to streamline medication management and reduce medication errors, FDB’s electronic drug catalogue will be integrated across its hospital information systems.
HNEH, part of New South Wales Government, provides care for 840,000 people across a large, geographical area. HNEH in-patient wards will use the FDB drug terminology when discharging patients. Staff will be able to quickly and easily produce a comprehensive list of a patient’s medications that is consistent, unambiguous and free of other terminology related errors. Complete and accurate discharge documentation helps to ensure that patients and their GPs have a clear picture of current medications.
The rollout across HNEH of full electronic prescribing for discharge medications is planned in 2010. Medical staff will then have access to comprehensive drug information on thousands of prescription drugs including side effects, drug interactions, official warnings, alerts and medical conditions associated with specific drugs. For the first time clinicians will be able to consider relevant drug information whilst prescribing a course of treatment or offering guidance to a patient.
“Medication errors occur at an alarming rate in Australian hospitals - affecting at least 2.4% of admissions or some 164,000 patients annually. Major contributing factors are confusion arising from inconsistent terminology and a lack of drug information during prescribing. The implementation at HNEH will help to alleviate some of the errors that occur every day in Australian hospitals” says Chung Liauw, Managing Director, First DataBank Australia.
Chris Kurtz, HNEH Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Program Manager adds: “The first step towards a reduction in medication errors is improved online documentation. By providing clinicians with more interoperable systems and the very best drug information at the point of data entry, we have taken that first step - and laid the foundation for more advanced decision support in the future.”
Contact Information
Chung Liauw
+61 3 64 256 444
chung_liauw@firstdatabank.com.au