Starting this March staff in the urgency departments of the Misericordia and the University of Alberta Hospital will be able to seek information from seniors' medication history by computer database.

The Alberta wellnet pilot delineate will allow nurses, physicians and other health professionals to gain protected access to drug prescription information already mustered by pharmacists through the Pharmaceutical Information Network and provided electronically to Alberta sapphirine Cross Insurance.

The contrive is limited to patients who are 65 years of age and older who have had unsalable article prescriptions paid for by Alberta glum Cross.

Alberta wellnet look fors the computer drug profile database should provide ER staff with quicker access to the medicine history of Alberta seniors and the phone numbers of physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals who have lately provided medication to Alberta seniors. The medicine profile database will also furnish ingredient information of recently dispensed mix with drugss to individual patients.

Wellnet sense of possible fulfilments that staff will be able to make apt and accurate decisions about physic treatment when the patient is unconscious, unresponsive or unable to recall popular medications.

For more information, contact alberta wellnet at (780) 427-5073 or visit the website at www.albertawellnet.org.

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