The Director's Forum series is written and edited by Michael Sanborn and Robert Weber and is designed for guiding pharmacy leaders in establishing patient-centered services in hospitals and health systems. Another specific goal of this column is addressing many of the key challenges that pharmacy directors currently face, while also providing information that will foster growth in pharmacy leadership and patient safety. As the use of electronic prescribing grows in health systems, pharmacy directors must be positioned to assist their organizations in a variety of ways when implementing and evaluating these systems. This installment of the Director's Forum provides a brief primer to electronic prescribing and its implications for improving the patient-centered provision of hospital pharmacy services.
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