Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration System (HEPMA)

Summary

Abstract

The HEPMA data resource captures and compiles information on all medicines prescribed within the ward/hospital covered by the system; this includes medicine name, formulation, strength, dose, route, and frequency of administration, and dates and times of prescribing. In addition, the HEPMA dataset also captures information on medicines administration, including dates and time of administration.

• Contact point
  phs.edris@phs.scot
• Digital object identifier (DOI)
  Not available

Keywords

Publisher

• Identifier
  7
• Name
  Public Health Scotland
• Logo
  
• Description
  Public Health Scotland is an NHS Board. We are uniquely sponsored by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) on behalf of local government.
• Contact point
  phs.edris@phs.scot

Documentation

Description

• Associated media
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• Is part of
  • Available

Coverage

Spatial

• Spatial coverage

  United Kingdom, Scotland

• Geographic levels
  Not available

Temporal

• Start date
  01/07/2022
• End date
  Not available
• Frequency
  Other
• Distribution release date
  Not available

Provenance

• Purpose
  Administrative
• Source
  Not available
• Collection situation
  Prescribing - Hospital

Access and governance

• Conditions of access
  General research use

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Usage

• Conditions of use
  Not for profit use, Project-specific restrictions
• Resource creator
  Not available
• Is referenced by
  Not available

Access

• Access rights
  https://publichealthscotland.scot/services/data-research-and-innovation-services/electronic-data-research-and-innovation-service-edris/services-we-offer/
• Access service
  Scottish National Safe Haven / Trusted Research Environment: https://publichealthscotland.scot/services/data-research-and-innovation-services/electronic-data-research-and-innovation-service-edris/national-safe-haven-nsh/
• Jurisdiction
  Northern Ireland, Great Britain
• Data controller
  Public Health Scotland
• Data processor
  National Services Scotland

Format and standards

• Language
  English
• Format
  text, csv

Enrichment and linkage

• Related datasets
  • Not available
• Linkage opportunity
  Not available
• Tools
  • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data dictionary