Digitalisation of medicines: artefact, architecture and time
In an editorial in QSHC Tony Cornford and Valentina Lichtner look at current digital initiative around medicines, in particular electronic prescribing. They offer a new vision for the future based on new platform architectures in support of a more digitally active kind of medicines. In particular, they suggest that safety in the systems we use with medicines is potentially well served:
” By separating the infrastructure layer, where digital artefacts [digital drugs] and associated services are made available to share, from the users’ applications layer , [the] engine of innovation – including innovation in safety – may be restarted”.
