Electronic Medication Management
Electronic Medication Management (eMM) generates new knowledge about how digital medication management can contribute positively to a unified health and welfare service for the future. There is a lack of understanding regarding how digital tools can ensure the safe management of medications. Currently, pharmacies, medical offices, hospitals, nursing homes, and home care services use different digital tools. The management of medication varies between institutions, and the silo organization between primary and specialized healthcare complicates the secure handling of medications across organizations, institutions, and levels.
By examining how medications are handled and how digital solutions are implemented, utilized, or not utilized, the eMM project will provide new insights into medication management and digitization. The study aims to map the various technologies used in Norway, investigate how much they support the entire medication management process, explore work practices and collaboration among professionals, and analyze the significance of digitization for integration and collaboration across institutions and organizations. The National Center for e-Health Research (NSE) leads the research project.
The study is conducted in Stavanger and Narvik.
Research Group
Line Lundvoll Warth (UiT), Monika Johansen (NSE), Stine Agnete Ingebrigtsen (NSE), Henriette Lauvhaug Nybakke (NSE), Catherine Pope, University of Oxford, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, University of Oxford, Morten Hertzum, University of Copenhagen, Gunnar Ellingsen, (IHO, UiT).
Collaboration Partners
Health Stavanger – Stavanger University Hospital, Directorate of e-Health, New UNN Narvik, User Committee Health South-East RHF.
Project Period
2021-2025
Funding
Norwegian Research Council
Publications
Bjørnstad, C. and Ellingsen, G. (2022). Medication quality and work practice. Procedia Computer Science, vol. 196, pp. 673-683.
Hertzum, Morten; Ellingsen, Gunnar (2023): Infrastructural Complexity: A Mapping of Medication Management in Norway. Infrahealth 2023 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Infrastructures in Healthcare 2023. DOI: 10.48340/ihc2023_p004. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET). ISSN: 2510-2591. Siegen, Germany. 11-12 September 2023
Ellingsen, Gunanr, and Hertzum, Morten, Severinsen, Gro-Hilde, and Wynn Rolf (2023): Medication Reconciliatin as Repair Work. MEDINFO2023 Proceedings