What is the joint commission?
- establishes training programs
- independent, nonprofit organization that establishes guidelines and standards for the operation and management of health care facilities
What is the National Council for Prescription Drug Program (NCPDP)?
- focuses on pharmacy services
- develops steps of prescription process
- made the SCRIPT standard
What is the NCPDP SCRIPT standard?
-facilitates the transfer of prescription data among pharmacies, prescribers, intermediaries and payers
What is the PSTAC?
- it stands for Pharmacist Services Technical Advisory Coalition
- It is established to improve the billing and to secure a place for pharmacy in the electronic data interchange
What is the disadvantage of e-prescribing?
there is a transaction fee
What is the purpose of electric health care records?
- it is generated by physicians, patients, hospitals and pharmacies
- controlled by legal proxy or by patients
- it is then presented to the HCP when patient needs care
How do you access systems for a computerized physician order entry?
Through password, biometrics or other devices
What is in a pharmacy database?
- drug file
- physician file (phone #, DEA #, National provider identifier)
- Clinical monitoring (drug interactions, dose range checking)
- Payer and insurance information
What is point of care?
The point where the pharmacist and patient attempt to address, identify, and prevent drug-related problems
What are the parts in a Pharmacy computer to interface with other systems?
- patient info
- prescription processing
- pharmacist verification of orders entered by technician
What is the advantage of ambulatory care automation?
reduces error and time to fill prescription
What are disadvantages of ambulatory care automation?
- It’s expensive
- requires a minimum number of prescriptions daily to be cost effective
What is is Centralized automation and what are the advantages and disadvantages?
- it is used to improve manual filling of unit dose carts
- advantage- efficient and can track expiration date
- disadvantage- cost and cannot stock all drugs
What is decentralized automation and the advantages and disadvantages?
- it often contains floor stock medication
- advantage- improve accuracy and reduced time
- disadvantage- cost
The pharmacy manager notices that a number of alprazolam tablets are missing. Which of these reports can be used to determine if a pharmacy worker is taking the tablets for personal use? A. an override report B. an inventory report C. a diversion report D. a usage report
Ans: c
Diversion reports compare the amount of medication inventory that was sent in by the wholesaler with the amount of medication dispensed and the amount currently in stock. This allows the person viewing the report to see if diversion is taking place. Additional reports can then be generated to see when the diversion took place, and who was working at that time.
How long do SCRIPTS last for class 2 drugs?
they never expire
