Proper medication reconciliation can help prevent adverse drug events by identifying exactly what medications a patient was taking before coming to the hospital and confirming appropriate medication ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a free, downloadable medications at transitions and clinical handoffs toolkit for medication reconciliation. Medication reconciliation is a ...

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Bordeaux, France-based Synapse Medicine announced Tuesday that it has raised $28 million to scale a technology that helps to build a comprehensive and accurate list of medications that a patient is ...

On average, home health patients take 13 medications, and the average time to manually input the required information about a single medication is 1.5 minutes. This means that for the average patient, ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...

"Proper medication reconciliation involves verifying a patient's medication history, clarifying that information when necessary, and making sure any further treatment fits with the patient's past and ...

Wendy Paul and Kyle Longhurst will offer more detail in their HIMSS23 session "Using Machine Learning to Reduce Discharge Medication Errors." It is scheduled for Thursday, April 20, at 2:30 p.m. - ...