Ozturk Selcuk, Kayaalp Mehmet, McDonald Clement J
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:963-8. eCollection 2014.
Interpreting patient's medication history from long textual data can be unwieldy especially in emergency care. We developed a real-time software application that converts one-year-long patient prescription history data into a visually appealing and information-rich timeline chart. The chart can be digested by healthcare providers quickly; hence, it could be an invaluable clinical tool when the rapid response time is crucial as in stroke or severe trauma cases. Furthermore, the visual clarity of the displayed information may help providers minimize medication errors. The tool has been deployed at the emergency department of a trauma center. Due to its popularity, we developed another version of this tool. It provides more granular drug dispensation information, which clinical pharmacists find very useful in their routine medication-reconciliation efforts.
从长篇文本数据中解读患者的用药史可能很繁琐，尤其是在急诊护理中。我们开发了一款实时软件应用程序，可将长达一年的患者处方历史数据转换为视觉上吸引人且信息丰富的时间线图表。医疗保健提供者可以快速理解该图表；因此，在中风或严重创伤等需要快速响应的关键情况下，它可能是一种非常有价值的临床工具。此外，所显示信息的视觉清晰度可能有助于提供者将用药错误降至最低。该工具已在一家创伤中心的急诊科部署。由于其受欢迎程度，我们开发了该工具的另一个版本。它提供了更详细的药物配发信息，临床药剂师发现这在他们日常的用药核对工作中非常有用。
