Designing an electronic medication reconciliation system.
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.
Hamann
Claus
C
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Poon
Eric
E
Smith
Sandra
S
Coley
Christopher
C
Graydon-Baker
Erin
E
Gandhi
Tejal
T
Chueh
Henry C
HC
Poikonen
John
J
Hallisey
Robert K
RK
Van Putten
Cheryl
C
Broverman
Carol
C
Blumenfeld
Barry
B
Middleton
Blackford
B
D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*