Documenting pharmacist interventions on an intranet.

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Pharmacy Practice
• Clinical Documentation

Background:

• Hospital pharmacy departments require efficient methods for documenting clinical interventions.
• Standardizing intervention types is crucial for benchmarking medication use and patient care across multiple facilities.
• Existing documentation methods lacked real-time data capture and consistent categorization.

Purpose of the Study:

• To describe the development and implementation of an intranet website for clinical intervention documentation.
• To improve the capture of meaningful, real-time benchmarking data for pharmacist interventions.
• To standardize intervention types across seven hospitals within a health system.

Main Methods:

• A needs assessment and review of current methodologies were conducted.