Electronic Chemotherapy System
Electronic chemotherapy prescribing offers significant advantages over paper-based systems in terms of patient safety and the efficient and effective use of resources. It also offers a potential solution to the challenges of the increasing demands which will be made of chemotherapy services as a result of increases in cancer incidence (due to the ageing population) and the introduction of new, more complex chemotherapy treatments.
Following a national procurement process, CIS Oncology’s ChemoCare system was selected as the national chemotherapy electronic prescribing and administration system for Scotland. The benefits of the ChemoCare system include:
- built-in safety features to prevent errors in calculating dosages and drug reconstitution
- provision for monitoring of dose modifications
- automatic inclusion of supportive drugs in package
- provision of a facility for clinical audit and financial monitoring
- availability of patient prescription details at all sites 24/7
- automatic scheduling of patient care
- remote prescribing facility
SCAN is now upgrading its version of ChemoCare across the region, and this will involve SCAN clinical, nursing, pharmacy and e-Health teams.
