Medication Management
With four visits to outside providers since you last saw Hart, it is hard to pick up the baton from the last encounter. It can be hard to effectively, especially safely, perform reconciliation without having all the records.
These statements likely sound familiar to you...
"The red pill that helps with my pain...", or "The big water pill...", or "The white tablet which cannot be taken with any green leafy vegetables."
By providing the most recent medication lists from prior encounters, particularly visits which may have taken place outside of your organization, we provide a recent reference for what someone was suggested to take at a visit or discharge. We have access to Surescripts data which gives an additional layer of context by sharing medication fill data. As you know, it is not enough to e-prescribe that diuretic for a CHF exacerbation or anti-biotic for UTI. It is better to know the patient has picked it up and is more likely to be taking the medication.
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