Health district drug management tools in the comunidad Valenciana health system

Author

Trillo, Jose-Luis ; Uso, Ruth ; Vivas, David ; Bru, Juan ; Sancho, Carla ; Buigues, Laia ; Sauri, Inma ; Mendez, Pablo

Author_Institution

Conselleria de Sanitat, Gen. Direction of Pharmacy & Pharm. Products, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 June 2014

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

84

Abstract

This paper presents two software tools developed by the Conselleria de Sanitat CV (Valencia Regional Health Department) to improve pharmaceutical management and the rational use of medicines. The first tool (SCPcv) stratifies the population into groups according to morbidity using Clinical Risk Groups (CRG) and establishes pharmaceutical consumption forecasts by type of patient and compliance indicators. The second tool (PRM) is used to manage medicine related problems (MRP) under the programme REFAR (Review and Follow Up of Pharmacotherapy). Both tools are improving the quality of care delivered in the scope of pharmaceutical treatments and helping pharmaceutical cost containment.

Keywords

medical computing; patient care; patient treatment; pharmaceuticals; CRG; Clinical Risk Groups; Conselleria de Sanitat CV; MRP; PRM; REFAR; Review and Follow Up of Pharmacotherapy; Valencia Regional Health Department; care quality; compliance indicators; medicine rational use; medicine related problem management; morbidity; patient; pharmaceutical consumption forecasts; pharmaceutical cost containment; pharmaceutical management; pharmaceutical treatments; software tools; Drugs; Predictive models; Sociology; Software tools; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BHI.2014.6864309

Filename

6864309