Hospital and Acute Care Connect
Surescripts Medication History for Acute Settings service can
serve as a foundation for medication history reconciliation:
- At the time of acute care or ED admission
- At the points of transfer within a facility
- At discharge
Today's medication reconciliation process relies primarily on
time-consuming patient interviews, which are especially complicated
in hospital emergency departments (EDs) where some medical
conditions can compromise a patient's ability to provide crucial
information. This process can result in manual transcription errors
and unreported medications, putting patients at risk of adverse
drug events (ADEs) and the readmissions they cause.
Now care providers in healthcare settings can help improve the
management of this patient risk with Surescripts Medication History
for and Emergency Department Settings service.
Surescripts Medication History helps hospitals and EDs perform a
more complete, accurate and efficient medication reconciliation
process, a critical part of helping to reduce costly ADEs and the
associated readmissions. The Surescripts
solution:
- Provides extensive access to PBM claims and pharmacy fill data, covering 240 millions lives and over 2 billion prescription fill transactions
- Delivers information electronically to the clinician's EMR inpatient or emergency department application in real-time
- Helps eliminate manual transcription errors and provides more complete and up to date medication claims information
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. Here's a list of certified vendors.
Download our product overview sheet to learn more about our Medication History for Hospitals and ED Settings service.
