This article was originally published December 16, 2020
on PSQH by Megan Maddox, PharmD, BCPS, CDE
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the HCPro book Medication Reconciliation: Practical Strategies and Tools for Compliance. Learn more at https://hcmarketplace.com/medication-reconciliation-practical-strategies-tools-for-compliance.
With the widespread implementation of the electronic medical record (EMR) and the ability to trigger that reconciliation gets completed at various stages of a patient’s healthcare encounter, the focus of medication reconciliation has now turned to how to collect the most accurate and updated medication list on our patients on admission or during clinic visits.
In addition, organizations are focusing on opportunities to ensure patients are being discharged with the medication list the provider intended. What has been identified over the past decade by healthcare organizations working on med rec is a patient’s medication list is ever changing a