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Introduction:

Using a computerised prescription system, Towradgi Park Village is saving time by increasing its efficiency. Incorrect, ineligible or incomplete medication charts are a thing of the past.

Female:

We were particularly, ah, I guess enthusiastic to participate because our staff had told us over a number of years how difficult it was often to have doctors update medication charts in particular, and often we had the difficulty of the notes or the medication prescriptions and charts not being legible.

Female 1:

Before the program was introduced, the doctors would come onsite, write up the medication charts, then go back to their surgery, usually write the scripts up there, send them off to the pharmacy. With the new system, with Medication Profile, because it's done on site and the system was inbuilt that all the data had to be put in before the chart could be printed out, such as the dose, the frequency, the route that the medication was to be given, whether the resident's on allergies, and from here it would be sent to the pharmacy and the medication could be back onsite within the hour.

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