Pennsylvania hospitals experienced more than 500 breakdowns in the medication reconciliation process between November 2011 and November 2012, according to the December issue of the Pennsylvania ...

The issue that healthcare organizations struggle with now is where to get the resources to develop a med rec team that is dedicated to collecting patient medication histories. Editor’s note: This is ...

Electronic health records have a big role to play in improving hospitals' medication reconciliation, a new study finds, but challenges related to data quality, technology and workflow remain. [See ...

The authors propose statewide programs that would expand the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program for all medications-not just opiates-in order to reduce outpatient medication errors. In the ...

To prevent readmissions, the clinical integration process must incorporate pharmacies to improve medication reconciliation, argues a piece from Hospitals & Health Networks. As hospitals and healthcare ...

Hospitals that let pharmacists hold a lead role in med reconciliation see dramatically more accurate patient information during admission and discharge and fewer errors. Accurate med reconciliation ...

Plans that invest in real-time visibility, clinical data exchange, and workflows built around proactive action will protect ...

Pharmacy review, adherence counseling during discharge, and ongoing telephone follow up identify safety concerns, prove cost-effective, researchers find. Hospital-based medication reconciliation ...

A clinic visit, hospital admission, or transition in care often begins with medication reconciliation. Developed to provide safer, more coordinated, and better-quality care, medication reconciliation ...

Background: Hospital discharge is an interface of care when patients are at a high risk of medication discrepancies as they transition from hospital to home. These discrepancies are important, as they ...

Like other hospital executives, leaders at King’s Daughters Medical Center, a 99-bed community hospital in Brookhaven, Mississippi, 60 miles south of the state capital in Jackson, were concerned that ...

The authors used aggregate pharmacy claims data available within a primary care electronic health record to identify a high rate of medication discrepancies. ABSTRACTObjectives: Methods for efficient ...