Creating a Drug Knowledge Database for integration into a Health Information System

OTERO, CARLOS M.; GIMENEZ, CINTIA; DIAZ, SOLEDAD; REBRIJ, ROMINA; MATTIONI, LAURA; LUNA, DANIEL R.

Madrid

Congreso; MIE 2015; 2015

The management of a large amount of data about drugs is particularly complex. It is known that prescribing drugs is a major source of error in medicine. Also, the information about drugs, their mode of use and possible adverse effects, are some of the most needed data by professionals and patients. The clinical prescription order entry (CPOE) systems are emerging as a solution to this problem, but to integrate knowledge drug databases to these tools and the Health Information Systems is not an easy work. The structure and representation of drug databases by international standards could be the answer to achieving the integration of scientific knowledge to clinical systems. On this basis the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires decided to conduct a validation process of different sources of drug information in order to create a base of knowledge structured and controlled by international standards