Many prescribing systems are either too prescriptive, or inflict information overload, because there is little connection made between patient information and drug knowledge. SafeScript research has shown that users prefer concise, evaluated advice to be available at the moment of prescribing and dispensing, thus avoiding this problem.

INFORMATION AT THE POINT OF PRESCRIBING

With WSDD incorporated as a prescribing/drug information module into the Electronic Patient Medical Record (EPR/EMR) of any clinical computer system (for General Practice, Hospitals, or Community Pharmacies), prescribing is optimised to eliminate errors, to give ingredient based drug/drug interactions, indications. side effects, contraindications, drug use in pregnancy, lactation, liver and renal disease advice, flagged with specific linkage to matching clinical entries in the chosen patient’s EPR.

PRESCRIBING OPTIMISED

Users of SafeScript technology are able to optimise their prescribing for:
· Safety - prevents and reduces fatalities, morbidity and serious drug reactions and interactions.
· Cost vs Benefit - WSDD provides quantitative and qualitative costing algorithms.
· Evaluated Ingredient Information - not reliant on generalised guidance.
· Physician Warnings - both ‘ingredient’ and ‘product’ based.
· Patient Advice and Warnings - both ‘ingredient’ and ‘product’ based.
· Standardised Coding Terminology to allow valid prospective and retrospective audit and research