Chief Healthcare Executive March 22, 2024
The Florida health system uses technology to send doctors more targeted medication alerts. David Linz of NCH talks about the effort.
Physicians regularly get alerts from electronic health record systems when patients are given new medications, advising them of how they can interact with other prescriptions.
Doctors get a lot of alerts.
For many doctors, the number of medication alerts can get overwhelming, and add to their stress, says David Linz, chief medical informatics officer at NCH Healthcare Systems. Linz also says that many of those alerts are unnecessary.
The Florida-based health system has worked to develop more targeted medication alerts. Linz talked about NCH’s refined medication alerts at the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition earlier this month.
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