| Study type/ Setting | Methods | Outcomes | Recommendations | Source |
| Prospective intervention design
Setting: Outpatient
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- PharmaCloud is a new technical platform adopted by the National Health Insurance Administration of Taiwan to collect patients’ medical information via cloud technology - The system provides instant access to detailed cloud-based pharmacy claims data from different healthcare facilities for the past 3 months with a lag time of 2 days; it enables healthcare providers to obtain a patient’s medication information via a secured internet portal - Patients were assigned to the PharmaCloud group and the non-PharmaCloud group in the outpatient setting, and then compared their medication usage and expenditure | - After the application of PharmaCloud, the average number of prescribed drug items significantly decreased.
- Intra-hospital medication duplication rates also decreased. |
- The implementation of cloud technology improved patient medication safety while also controlling overall drug expenditure. | Liao C-Y et al. (2019) |
| Liao C-Y, Wu M-F, Poon S-K, et al. Improving medication safety by cloud technology: Progression and value-added applications in Taiwan. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2019;126:65-71. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.03.012 |
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