title: Designing an electronic medication reconciliation system.
abstract: Unintended medication discrepancies at hospital admission and discharge potentially harm patients. Explicit medication reconciliation (MR) can prevent unintended discrepancies among care settings and is mandated by JCAHO for 2005. Enterprise-wide, we are linking pre-admission and discharge medication lists in our outpatient electronic health records (EHR) with our inpatient order entry applications (OE) - currently not interoperable - to support MR and inform the development of comprehensive MR among hospitalized patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hamann
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coley
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Graydon-Baker
authors.forename: Tejal
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gandhi
authors.forename: Henry C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Chueh
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poikonen
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Hallisey
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Van Putten
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Broverman
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blumenfeld
authors.forename: Blackford
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Middleton
mesh_terms: D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*