While medication management technologies can overwhelm providers due to the interoperability and personnel complications, health IT can be utilized to mediate the concerns, according to a Feb. 23 presentation during the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
Medication functions in the EHR contribute “mightily” to care process, throughput and quality, according to Allen Flynn, PharmD, of Solutions Designer for Health Practice Innovators, and chair of the volunteer section, pharmacy informatics and technology division, American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP).
For the pharmacy’s top 10 things for a CIO to know, he listed:
Scope
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Architecture
Practice changes
Drug supply chain
Safety & efficiency
Pharmacy staffing
Redundant work
Saving money
Complexity
Downtime
Flynn explained that medications have an oversized footprint in the EHR. The scope extends from admissions to pre- and post-surgery medications, for example, which then need to be transferred from ICU to acute care, to new medications after orders and changes to discharges.
via HIMSS: 10 things CIOs should know about medication management.