The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7455 p677-678, 683
9 June 2007

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Electronic prescribing — technology designed for the health care setting

In this article Stephen Goundrey-Smith outlines the requirements for the Connecting for Health electronic prescribing programme and discusses what electronic prescribing will mean for pharmacists

Stephen Goundrey-Smith is pharmacy informatics specialist at SGS PharmaSolutions

SUMMARY

Recently, the baseline specification for the Connecting for Health (CfH) electronic prescribing programme was published, describing the functionality required of electronic medicines management software that will be provided for the programme.

This software will come from CfH software suppliers via local service providers (LSPs). The specification was formulated following a series of engagement meetings with clinical professionals about a year ago and taking into account comments made by interested parties on a draft specification published in September 2006.

This specification is a clarification of the relevant section of the (then) “National programme for information technology output based specification” published in 2003.

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