Advanced Pharmacy System’s Remote order entry services is an extension of your hospital’s pharmacy where APS can remotely review your prescription orders and then process them to ensure patient safety 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
 

This expansion is possible by:
 

1. Your hospital nursing staff delivers APS a prescription order for their specific patient by way of fax or scan.

2. Through a secure electronic telecommunications system APS can access your hospital pharmacy’s database which includes: all of the patient information, laboratory data, and progress notes, etc.

3. APS’s clinical pharmacists then review the order and perform drug utilization review and if it is free of errors, processes and then confirms the order for the hospital staff to administer to the patient.

4. After confirmation by way of computer or phone call, the hospital nursing staff can now dispense the medication and administer it to the patient as scheduled or as needed.

5. Compliant with all State’s Board of Pharmacy, The Joint Commission
 

One of the biggest problems in our nation’s healthcare system is that our hospitals do not have a pharmacist overseeing the healthcare staff 24/7. About 4,000 hospitals do not have a pharmacist being employed 24 hours a day. Advanced Pharmacy System remote order entry/ telepharmacy services strive to provide a solution to alleviate your hospitals chances of an inaccuracy occurring and provide services to guarantee your patient’s safety at all times.