Hospital/Acute Care Connect

Patients do not always remember all medications they are taking or the appropriate names of their medications which makes it difficult to determine past medication history. Specifically, the transition from the ambulatory setting to the acute care setting is fraught with confusion especially for medication management.  

Patients who enter an acute care facility with a worsening of a chronic condition often represent medication non-compliance versus disease progression.

Hospitals and other acute care facilities can utilize Surescripts' Medication History for Acute Care Settings service to securely access real-time patient medication history information for the purposes of medication reconciliation or medication management.  The data provides accurate name and dosage of past/current patient medications which helps reduce time spent on the medication reconciliation process.

In addition, the service supports drug-to-drug or drug-allergy interaction checks, and reduces the potential for drug duplication.  By providing access to more data, the service can support analysis of patient compliance with drug therapy, understanding of patient behavior, including frequency of prescription fills and numbers of physicians and pharmacies involved.

Hospitals and other acute care settings interesting in connecting to the Surescripts network to access this service should contact a technology vendor that has been certified for the service. A list of certified vendors can be found here.