e-Prescription systems are key components and drivers of digital health. They can enhance
the safety of the patients, and are gaining popularity in health care systems around the …

Background The utilization of electronic prescribing is growing, prompted by lockdown
measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite this increasing adoption, there …

Background Medication prescribing is essential for the treatment, curing, maintenance,
and/or prevention of an illness and disease, however, medication errors remain common …

Objective There is global interest in implementing national information systems to support
healthcare, and the National Health Service in England (NHS) has a troubled 25-year …

Objectives: The objective of this study is to describe how OCRx (Canadian Drug Ontology)
has been built to address the dual need for local drug information integration in Canada and …

The ambiguities and overspecificities of prescription semantics along with their lack of
standardization hinders the adoption of electronic prescriptions in some countries, limit data …

We proposed an architecture for a national electronic prescription system. This work is
based on the HL7 CDA standard to represent the prescription, the ABE encryption to encrypt …

Paper-based prescriptions have been used for several decades by many healthcare
practitioners. The literature suggests that several challenges are associated with …

Background Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is an essential technology in the modern
health system. This technology has made many changes in the prescription process, which …

Purpose The variations in how drug names are displayed in computerized prescriber-order-
entry (CPOE) systems were analyzed to determine their contribution to potential medication …