A total design and implementation of an intelligent mobile chemotherapy medication administration

• Published in: Studies in health technology and informatics Vol. 201; p. 441
• Main Authors: Kuo, Ming-Chuan, Chang, Polun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 2014
• Subjects: Antineoplastic Agents - administration & dosage; Attitude of Health Personnel; Decision Support Systems, Clinical - organization & administration; Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted - methods; Electronic Health Records - organization & administration; Humans; Infusion Pumps; Medical Order Entry Systems - organization & administration; Medication Systems - organization & administration; Neoplasms - drug therapy; Software; Software Design; Telemedicine - organization & administration; User-Computer Interface
• ISSN: 0926-9630
• DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-415-2-441

The chemotherapy medication administration is a process involved many stakeholders and efforts. Therefore, the information support system cannot be well designed if the entire process was not carefully examined and reengineered first. We, from a 805-teaching medical center, did a process reengineering and involved physicians, pharmacists and IT engineers to work together to design a mobile support solution. System was implemented in March to July, 2013. A 6" android handheld device with 1D BCR was used as the main hardware. 18 nurses were invited to evaluate their perceived acceptance of system based on Technology Acceptance Model for Mobile Service Model. Time saved was also calculated to measure the effectiveness of system. The results showed positive support from nurses. The estimated time saved every year was about 288 nursing days. We believe our mobile chemotherapy medication administration support system is successful in terms of acceptance and real impacts.