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Living with computers

Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral CH49 5PE, UK (corresponding author)

Anthony E Alderman, MBDS MSC

SHO in Accident and Emergency, Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, UK

Gill Ross, SRN, SCM, Senior Midwife

Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, UK

Most hospitals in the UK have introduced computer technology to a greater or lesser extent. Usually this technology amounts to a series of `stand-alone' computers introduced piecemeal to fulfil specific tasks or purposes. Such stand-alone computers usually do not interface easily and rarely do they `talk to each other' within and between departments. In this article we describe a system introduced throughout a large district general hospital, where two entire hospitals were computerised simultaneously. We describe the effects of living with these computers, twelve years on.

Keywords Keywords / adverse drug events / closed-loop prescribing / computer prescribing / patient care information system / personal electronic data cards