Class of 2010 Abstract / OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the use of electronic-prescriptions reduces the amount of interventions being performed by pharmacists in a retail community setting. METHODS: Investigators directly observed local community pharmacist for a period of 3 weeks, during the working hours of 9am to 6pm. Information recorded with each intervention was the type of prescription, drug in question, reasons for intervention, final outcome, and time spent performing intervention. RESULTS: After 3 weeks of direct observation a total of 21 interventions were performed on electronic-prescriptions versus 154 interventions on other types of prescriptions (handwritten, faxed, verbal). The percentage of prescriptions that needed interventions was 11.7% of electronic-prescriptions versus 10.3% of all other types (p = 0.565). CONCLUSIONS: In this limited study, the rate of interventions appears to be similar between electronic-prescriptions and other types of prescriptions as a whole.

A large number of attitudes and methods of dealing with health service, or, more precisely, health, occur in theory and practice. The aim is to examine the efficiency of the implementation of the current projects, i.e. efficient application of tools of managing the quality of health. Theoretical rationales characterize understanding of conception of the quality of health especially in the sphere of health service. Moreover, this part introduces selected tools of managing the quality of health. The analytical part is focused on the institutional environment in connection with current challanges of eHealth implementation. The Central Repository of electronic prescriptions as the tool of managing the quality of health and the basis for ePrescription is one of the mentined challenges. The final part concerns with future trends in the Central Repository of electronic prescriptions and international projects, e.g. epSOS project. The EU is established on the principle of benchmarking, among other things. Possible future advances need to be considered in the context of foreign projects. For this reason, the Danish eHealth situation is included in the conclusion.