Development approach to an enterprise-wide medication reconciliation tool in a free-standing pediatric hospital with commercial best-of-breed systems

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:1164.

Abstract

Medication reconciliation is essential to providing a safer patient environment during transitions of care in the clinical setting. Current solutions include a mixed-bag of paper and electronic processes. Best-of-breed health information systems architecture poses a specific challenge to organizations that have limited software development resources. Using readily available service-oriented technology, a prototype for an integrated medication reconciliation tool is developed for use in an academic pediatric hospital with commercial systems.

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems
  • Hospitals, Pediatric
  • Humans
  • Information Systems*
  • Internet
  • Medical Order Entry Systems
  • Medication Errors / prevention & control
  • Medication Systems, Hospital*
  • Systems Integration