Envision Telepharmacy™ offers Remote Order Entry either after hours or during regular business hours to provide prospective medication order review by a pharmacist. Patient safety and medication error reduction are perhaps the most compelling reasons to have this service in place. JCAHO recognizes that medication errors are associated with 21% of all overrides of pharmacist review, and have MM 4.10 in place to address prospective order review by a pharmacist. This process is satisfied through Remote Order Entry provided by Envision Telepharmacy.
Additional benefits:
Optimized Pharmaceutical Care
- Time to first dose decreased
- Pharmacist prospective order review has been show to reduce errors
- Improved patient safety
- Timely resolution of drug-related problems
- Therapeutic interchanges initiated
- Clarification of orders
- Pharmacist initiated interventions
Increased Satisfaction
- Pharmacy
- Improved job satisfaction for both pharmacists & technicians
- Decreased hours spent on order entry
- Expands on-site clinical pharmacist activities
- Staffing
- Easier recruiting for hard to find professionals
- Relief coverage available
- Nursing
- Improved productivity with less time spent on pharmacy-related concerns
- Easier recruiting for hard to find professionals
- Administration
- Decentralized pharmacist time increases clinical function performance translating into facility drug cost savings
- Cost effective solution for
- Shifts that are difficult to staff
- Locations that are difficult to staff
- Unanticipated coverage needs (e.g. relief coverage)
- Periods demanding coverage, but less than additional full time RPh
Regulatory & Accreditation Standard Compliance
- JCAHO Medication Management standards
- Medication Safety Goals Met
- State Board Rules
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Nontraditional work schedules for pharmacists