Web-Based Digitalization of In-Patient Prescriptions and Medication Orders Management System

Abstract

Administering medication to a patient is a complicated process that can lead to errors at various stages, from prescribing to delivering the medication. The most common reasons for errors include illegible prescriptions, prescribing the wrong medication or dose, verbal misunderstandings of similar-sounding drug names, dispensing medications with identical names, and failure to send prescriptions to the pharmacy. To address these issues, an electronic medication management system was developed to automate the medication process, provide instant access to patient information, and reduce the workload of healthcare workers. The system is accessible only to authorized personnel, such as hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, via a web-based platform with a wireless intranet connection. The system covers the medication process from (a) prescribing/ordering, (b) transcribing and verifying, and (c) dispensing and delivering and has significantly reduced the time it takes to transcribe, verify, confirm, order, and dispense medications, making the process much faster than the manual approach. A survey of users found that the system performed well in terms of performance, usability, functional suitability, and compatibility by obtaining a strongly agreed result of 4.61 average weighted mean. Moreover, the test value is equal to -44.427 which is outside the range of the critical values (-2.001 to 2.001).