{"id":653,"date":"2020-12-14T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/?p=653"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:22:48","slug":"improving-medication-safety-by-cloud-technology-progression-and-value-added-applications-in-taiwan-international-journal-of-medical-informatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/2020\/12\/14\/improving-medication-safety-by-cloud-technology-progression-and-value-added-applications-in-taiwan-international-journal-of-medical-informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving medication safety by cloud technology: Progression and value-added applications in Taiwan. International Journal of  Medical Informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-653\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-653-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-653-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-653-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\"><strong>Study type\/ Setting<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Methods<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"240\"><strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"196\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\">Prospective intervention design<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Setting: Outpatient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">- PharmaCloud is a new technical platform adopted by the National Health Insurance Administration of Taiwan to collect patients\u2019 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\u2019s 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<\/td>\n<td width=\"240\">- After the application of PharmaCloud, the average number of prescribed drug items significantly decreased.<\/p>\n<p>- Intra-hospital medication duplication rates also decreased.<\/td>\n<td width=\"196\">- The implementation of cloud technology improved patient medication safety while also controlling overall drug expenditure.<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1386505618302934\" class=\"broken_link\">Liao C-Y et al. (2019)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">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<br \/>\nMedical Informatics. 2019;126:65-71. doi:10.1016\/j.ijmedinf.2019.03.012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study type\/ Setting Methods Outcomes Recommendations Source Prospective intervention design &nbsp; Setting: Outpatient &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; PharmaCloud is a new technical platform adopted by the National Health Insurance Administration of Taiwan to collect patients\u2019 medical information via cloud technology &#8211; The system provides instant access to detailed cloud-based pharmacy claims data from different healthcare facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[25,10,11,41],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 09:14:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}