Alert signs first Dutch pharmacy deal

Noordoost-Brabant Hospital Pharmacy (ZANOB) has become the first in the Netherlands to sign a contract with Alert for its new pharmacy system.

The pharmacy has signed a contract for the design, development and delivery of a complete hospital pharmacy IT system, which will be developed over the next two years.

The hospital and Alert will begin developing the system during the Spring of 2010 when the first tests will take place concerning the clinical part, which consists of prescription processing and medication monitoring.

In the second half of 2010, the non-clinical logistics will follow, which includes stock management, invoicing and ordering. In 2011, the current pharmacy system will be completely replaced.

Siebold de Boer, the hospital’s director said: “This is definitely a big step forward. The older IT systems emanate mostly from a logistics process and are not directly aimed at patient care.”

ZANOB manages the medication distribution in the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in S –Hertogenbosch, Bernhoven Hospital in Oss and Veghel and other care facilities in the region.

The system will be deployed alongside the Alert electronic health record (EHR) that will be implemented in the Jeroen Bosch and Bernhoven hospitals in the coming years.

The new architecture is based on the pharmacy activities that result from the digital medication requests that come from patient care.

De Boer added: “The main reason for choosing Alert Pharmacy is that the system complements our ambitions concerning medication monitoring very well.

“We have been working with a new type of medication monitoring for some time now that takes lab results into account automatically. It works with clinical rules, which means that the signals are filtered by a new revolutionary reasoning system that lets the truly relevant signals go through almost exclusively. Alert Pharmacy is very suitable for this.”

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