The British National Formulary (BNF) has announced the launch of Knowledge Integration Solutions for safer and more accurate electronic prescribing and dispensing of drugs in the NHS.
The BNF's clinical decision support and knowledge products include a range of data sets aligned with nationally mandated coding schemes for system interoperability which generate contextually relevant active alerts within the user's workflow. It also enables doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to check electronically for allergies, drug interactions, duplicate therapy, contra-indications and dose ranges.
The BNF now also provides a range of data sets and tools to allow the integration of referential and dose information into clinical workflows to aid the cataloguing of medicines and management of medicines policies across a Trust. These new digital developments enable its data sets to be integrated with Cerner's NHS Millennium application. BNF knowledge continues to be available within EMIS, the main e-prescribing system in UK primary care.
Pharmacists can also benefit from BNF's partnership with McLernon Computers, enabling pharmacists to access BNF or BNF for Children information when and where they need it. Additional access is also available to other key references such as Martindale and Stockley on the MedicinesComplete platform. Contextual links from the Ascribe Electronic Prescribing application to the relevant information in the BNF is expected to help pharmacists in the dispensing process.
The BNF is a joint publication of the BMJ Group and Pharmaceutical Press on behalf of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The publication is consulted over 3 million times a week and regarded as the number one prescribing resource by 4 out of 5 professionals in the NHS.
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