Question

Discuss the problems involved in medication reconciliation, and whether they think the EHRs can solve the problem.

Answer 1

Medication reconciliation is the systematic formal process that is used to comparing medication orders to the medicine that has been taken by the patient to know about drug interaction,dosasge error,duplication,medication error etc

problems involved in medication reconciliation

1. Incomplete history of medication may recorded in medication reconciliation system
2. Absence of specific standardized protocol for recording medication
3. In accurate quality of medication recorded
4. Not obtaining sufficient information about medication
5. Lack of knowledge and experience of persone who collect history of medication
6. patient being discharged with incorrect medication follow up
7. Difficulty to seek medication information about patient if patient in collapsed state
8. Time consuming and lengthy process of collection of data
9. Lack of colloboration of health workers
10. lack of communication details of patient with co health workers

EHRS

Electronic health recording system can solve some of the problems in medication reconciliation

• Electronic health records and electronic prescribing  patient-centered medication reconciliation is important to decrease errors
• Discharge related medication can be solve by hospital already using an electronic health record and computerized physician order entry.
• Collaboration with a pharmacist through sharing of EHRS will reduced discharge related medication errors
• EHRS will improve the collboration with co health workers by easily sharing of patient details
• EHRS will enhance the colloboration with pharmicist it provide evidence based advice from the expert about medication
• EHRS enhancing research in best practice that provide new implementation to reduce drug error
• proper evaluation of drug interaction can be done very effectively and easily through EHRS