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HMC to get software to detect prescription errors

Published: 05 Dec 2012 - 06:24 am | Last Updated: 05 Feb 2022 - 10:13 pm

DOHA: The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is planning to introduce a new software that will automatically detect errors in medical prescriptions, a senior HMC official said yesterday.
Data about the patient will be stored in the software and this will help detect the errors in prescriptions.
“This programme will be in use in one year and will be introduced in all hospitals in the next two years,” said Dr Yousuf Al Maslamani talking at a programme on Qatar Radio. The Peninsula