{"id":74040,"date":"2018-02-01T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=74040"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T02:19:40","slug":"centralizing-technology-aids-patient-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/01\/centralizing-technology-aids-patient-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Centralizing technology between medical care teams aids patient outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_74050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74050\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hilo-pharm2pharm-health.jpg\" alt=\"Pharmacist and a patient sitting at a desk\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hilo-pharm2pharm-health.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hilo-pharm2pharm-health-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New technology from the Pharm2Pharm program helps pharmacists manage high-risk patient medications.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Healthcare providers throughout <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> are using technology from a project led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> that helps pharmacists manage high-risk patients&#8217; medications across a variety of settings.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was first used in the federally funded $14.3 million Pharm2Pharm program, operated from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacy.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy<\/a>. Pharm2Pharm established a set of tools that were implemented through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiihie.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Health Information Exchange<\/a> (<abbr>HHIE<\/abbr>) system to communicate important clinical information to support patient care.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Through the health information technology we used for the Pharm2Pharm program, we were able to support pharmacists shifting from their traditional role of dispensing drugs into becoming a part of the patient care team. We believe this represents a unique integration of prescription medication information into an <abbr title=\"health information exchange\">HIE<\/abbr>,&rdquo; said Francis Chan, <abbr>HHIE<\/abbr>&#8217;s interim executive director.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers looked at pharmacists providing services for the Pharm2Pharm model in the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, hospital pharmacists and community pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>They determined priorities that could be addressed through health information technology tools including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More efficient and secure ways to transmit care transition documents<\/li>\n<li>Reliable access to outpatient translators<\/li>\n<li>More efficient ways to identify outpatient medications for medication reconciliation<\/li>\n<li>More efficient access to clinical information<\/li>\n<li>A system to document and communicate reconciled medication list and drug therapy problems<\/li>\n<li>A system to manage the population of patients enrolled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology tools that addressed those priorities, such as direct secure messaging, virtual translators and a prescription fill history query system, were implemented. The pharmacists in the study made the transition from paper and faxes to online technologies.<\/p>\n<p>For full story read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=9038\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Alyson Kakugawa-Leong<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> healthcare providers are using technology from a project led by <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo that helps pharmacists manage high-risk patients&#8217; medications across a variety of settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[52,165,50,914,14],"class_list":["post-74040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-pharmacy","tag-health","tag-pharmacy","tag-technology","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74040"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112628,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040\/revisions\/112628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}