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Tracking the time taken
from identification of an alert to its subsequent dismissal (action taken).
TAMonitor™
from THERAPYAUDIT Limited is a web-based therapeutic drug monitoring
solution which has proven effectiveness in the monitoring of patients on
a range of treatments.
The
web-based technology behind
TAMonitor
enables it to act as a hub in the flow of information between the
stakeholders associated with HIV monitoring. As shown in the
diagram, blood results
 and
patient demographics can be passed through an interface (such as HL7) to the TAMonitor database, in which sophisticated rules can be
maintained for individual, or groups of patients. The rules identify
abnormal results, abnormal trends in results, and patients who
haven't attended for testing when expected (DNA).
Once these
triggers are activated information can be escalated to any of the
stakeholders, for example to patients (by SMS) to recall for testing, or to
pharmacists. In the case of clinicians:
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urgent abnormals can be escalated to on-call clinicians for them to deal
with in conjunction with patients by phone or other method, recording
action taken so that information is visible to all other TAMonitor
users;
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less important alerts can be escalated to regular clinicians who can
record relevant information in the patient profile along with other data
such as details of HAART treatment.
In
addition to the proactive way in which TAMonitor
flows information, access can be provided to
TAMonitor for clinical and pharmacy users over the N3 network.
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