Potential benefit of electronic pharmacy claims data to prevent medication history errors and resultant inpatient order errors

Conclusion When current SEPCD was available for older adult patients on complex medication regimens, it had substantial potential to prevent AMH errors and resultant inpatient order errors, with greater potential to prevent more severe errors. Further study is needed to measure the benefit of SEPCD in actual use at hospital admission.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - January 17, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pevnick, J. M., Palmer, K. A., Shane, R., Wu, C. N., Bell, D. S., Diaz, F., Cook-Wiens, G., Jackevicius, C. A. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research