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Information technology has made a significant impact on the healthcare sector. The past decade has witnessed the foray of numerous information systems and their resultant products into the hospital scenario. The number of investments in computers and types of hospital systems has increased. This is because paper medical records are cumbersome, bulky to use and difficult to manage. On the other hand digital records are much easier to handle and improve the workflow efficiency by integrating various tasks.

A Hospital Information System (HIS) can be defined as a computerized system that is designed to meet all the information needs within a hospital. This includes diverse data types such as patient information, billing, finance and accounting, staffing and scheduling, pharmacy ordering, prescription handling, supplies, inventory, maintenance and orders management, diagnostic reports related to laboratory, radiology and patient monitoring as well as providing decision support. 

Pharmacology Clinical Decision Support System, as a sub system of Hospital Information System, increases patient safety by alerting the physicians to potential errors and providing them with requested counseling information. It integrates with all computerized solutions for medicine prescription such as e-prescribing, EMR (Electronic Medical Record), PIS (Pharmacy Information system) and CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry). Pharmacology CDSS should consists of the following elements:

Some benefits for healthcare organizations:

·         Increases patient safety by reducing medication errors
·         Protects the goodwill of healthcare organizations and physicians
·         Simple, seamless and swift integration to existing EMR/CPOE/PIS/e-prescription solutions
·         Increases efficiency- reduces operational costs and efforts invested in law suits