AHRQ Health IT Update: Automated Medication Reconciliation

AHRQ Health IT Update: Automated Medication Reconciliation

AHRQ Health IT Update: Automated Medication Reconciliation

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 03/20/2013 04:02 PM EDT Software Can Help Clinicians Automate Medication Reconciliation

Software can automate medication reconciliation by integrating, interpreting, and presenting information from multiple sources, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medication reconciliation, the process of reviewing and updating patient medication lists, can be time-consuming. Health care providers must often review multiple sources of information to ensure that medication lists include all of a patient’s current medications. Computers can aid clinicians in this task by integrating information gathered from pharmacies, patients and electronic health records. Collecting and presenting information from multiple sources in a graphic format helps clinicians identify which medications a patient may no longer be taking and thereby expedites medication reconciliation.

“Design of a Medication Reconciliation Application: Facilitating Clinician-Focused Decision Making with Data from Multiple Sources” appeared online first in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Select to access the abstract: http://aci.schattauer.de/en/home/issue/special/manuscript/19461/show.html.