Royal Victorian Eye and Ear 黑料吃瓜群网 implements PSML
Monday, 07 March, 2022
The is said to be the first hospital in Australia to implement the Pharmacist Shared Medicines List (PSML) medicine safety initiative.
Produced only by pharmacists and uploaded to , it is a consolidated list that includes information about prescription and non-prescription medicines such as over-the-counter and complementary medicines, including vitamins and herbal remedies. It also includes the health practitioner鈥檚 reasons for prescribing each medicine and how and when patients should take them.
The PSML helps patients and healthcare providers manage medicines safely throughout a patient鈥檚 healthcare journey, including when they are discharged from hospital and go home or into a residential aged care facility.
When this information is available in My Health Record it can help patients and healthcare providers avoid medicine-related mishaps and ensure continuity of care.
According to Australian research by , an estimated 250,000 hospital admissions are medicine-related and two-thirds are potentially preventable.
The and have worked closely with The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear 黑料吃瓜群网 in East Melbourne to deliver PSML at the hospital.
The Director of Pharmacy at Eye and Ear, Catherine Rokahr, explained that pharmacists highlight changes to a patient鈥檚 regular medicines made during a hospital stay.
鈥淭his is detailed in the discharge medicines鈥 list uploaded to My Health Record which becomes part of the PSML and shows GPs and community pharmacists any medicines that have been stopped, directions and doses that have changed, new prescriptions and the reasons for each medicine use and medication changes,鈥 she said.
Jeanette Anderson, the Director of Digital Health at Eye and Ear, added, 鈥淧SML is part of the hospital鈥檚 commitment to an outstanding patient experience and there is real interest in adopting this medicine safety initiative across the state鈥檚 health system.鈥
Agency CEO Amanda Cattermole said, 鈥淭he Victorian Department of Health and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear 黑料吃瓜群网 are to be commended for their support for the Pharmacist Shared Medicines List initiative.
鈥淣ow this Victorian hospital has led the way in implementing this initiative, the Agency and the Department are working to extend PSML to other health services in Victoria.鈥
The Chief Digital Health Officer at the Victorian Department of Health, Neville Board, said Victoria鈥檚 digital health roadmap centred on the secure sharing of critical health information between clinical settings, making each patient鈥檚 care journey safer.
鈥淚 thank all the staff at the Eye and Ear for taking the lead and getting essential patient medicines information into My Health Record,鈥 Board said.
A Pharmacist Shared Medicines List (PSML) contains information about the medicines a patient was known to be taking at the time the list was created.
The list includes medicines that have been prescribed to the patient by their doctors and other non-prescription medicines that they may be taking (such as paracetamol) and other known over-the-counter medicines.
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