An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication reconciliation is challenging during care transitions. Taking the “best possible medication history” ...

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 ...

Utilizing EMR capabilities to improve shared decision-making regarding DPYD pharmacogenomic testing. Comparison of medication verification and restart times before and after SOP-based intervention.

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 ...

John Klimek, senior vice president of industry information technology at the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, offers key insights into how hospitals can better fuse medication ...

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 ...

What About the Caregivers? Music Medicine as a Tool for Improving Psychological Well-Being Among Caregivers During Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment Medication reconciliation is a critical part of ...

Surescripts announced it has expanded its Medication History for Reconciliation (MHR) service to long-term and post-acute care facilities, and is now serving users of SigmaCare and Homecare Homebase.

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 ...

To reconcile or not to reconcile — when it comes to a health overhaul bill, that seems to be the biggest argument of the moment. At issue is a process called budget reconciliation. By writing Obama's ...