title: Development approach to an enterprise-wide medication reconciliation tool in a free-standing pediatric hospital with commercial best-of-breed systems.
abstract: Medication reconciliation is essential to providing a safer patient environment during transitions of care in the clinical setting. Current solutions include a mixed-bag of paper and electronic processes. Best-of-breed health information systems architecture poses a specific challenge to organizations that have limited software development resources. Using readily available service-oriented technology, a prototype for an integrated medication reconciliation tool is developed for use in an academic pediatric hospital with commercial systems.
authors.affiliation: Children's Health System, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Feliciano B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leising
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Turner
mesh_terms: D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D018511:Systems Integration