A Knowledge Base Driven Clinical Pharmacist Information System

Recent years, clinical pharmacists have been introduced into many Chinese hospitals to promote rational drug use. However, there lacks of an information system to facilitate such a novel clinical pharmacy workflow and monitor the whole hospital with limited pharmacy experts. In this paper, a knowledge base driven clinical pharmacist information system was proposed and developed. A clinical decision support service based on a customizable knowledge base can monitor every medication order placed at real time and notify both the clinician and clinical pharmacist. A collaboration information system between clinicians and pharmacists was developed to facilitate communication between them and manage the quality of clinical pharmacy. Through evaluating the system in a 2000-beded hospital, it can significantly reduce medication related error. It also showed a very good acceptance from both clinical pharmacists and clinicians.