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 ...

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 ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has offered seven guiding principles for healthcare organizations designing a medication reconciliation process. The guiding principles are part of a ...

Proper medication reconciliation can help prevent adverse drug events by identifying exactly what medications a patient was taking before coming to the hospital and confirming appropriate medication ...

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

To do medication reconciliation right, providers should aim for a “correct” medication list, according to a recent op-ed. Despite the recent focus on medication reconciliation as a quality metric, the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With the rise of hospitalists, in an inpatient setting, this process is often handled and overseen by hospital ...

The elderly and chronically ill patients are typically challenged with many drugs and complicated dosing regimens, often leading to medication errors. Medication errors are one of the most common ...

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 ...

FORT LEE, Va. (May 29, 2014) -- What is Medication Reconciliation? It's is a process to prevent medication errors. One might ask, how is this handled at Kenner Army Health Clinic? Kenner has a process ...

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 ...