# Vanderbilt University Medical Center verifies some classes of medication orders by rule without a pharmacist, while orders with serious warnings still go to one

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20210930-pharmacist-5
Date: 2021-09-30 · Stage: Deployment
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Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/pharmacist

## Scope

Tennessee, United States. The hospital pharmacy's own poster says auto-verification uses rule-based algorithms to determine which orders can be verified without a pharmacist review; it lists categories always auto-verified (such as imaging contrasts, radiopharmaceuticals, emergency and post-anaesthesia orders) and categories never auto-verified (orders with high or very high importance warnings and medicines such as systemic antibiotics), and estimates the time saved. One hospital, rule-based rather than AI, with data from September 2021; it says nothing about community pharmacy.

## Source

- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy (Babcock and Nelson) — poster 'Analysis of Auto-Verified Medication Orders' (data September 2021; PDF dated December 2021) — https://www.vumc.org/department-pharmacy/sites/default/files/public_files/Pharmacy/KBabcock_VizientPoster_AutoV.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

In a large hospital, low-risk orders pass by rule while the risky ones still reach a pharmacist.

## What it does not show yet

One hospital's rule-based system, not AI, and nothing about community pharmacy.

## How to verify it yourself

Open VUMC's poster 'Analysis of Auto-Verified Medication Orders' and find "verified without a pharmacist review".


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