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Electronic Medication Reconciliation
Are you looking for a medication reconciliation solution that:
- Is best-of-breed AND
- Is easily implemented AND
- Can be interfaced with your existing or future HIS?
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Product Overview
DrFirst’s RcopiaAC for hospitals is a powerful, web-based application that collects, displays, and documents patient medication information from admission to discharge to facilitate medication reconciliation and to build your community health data warehouse. RcopiaAC can be used standalone or interfaced with your existing or future HCIS systems for patient ADT information.
Current Hospital Challenges
Achieving an efficient medication reconciliation process can be difficult. Lack of patient knowledge regarding medication details, multiple care providers, multiple sources obtaining different medication lists for the same patient and Joint Commission requirements all contribute to the difficulty. Many hospitals are finding it challenging to determine the best method to manage patient medications and thereby improve patient safety. Although the required steps of verification, clarification, and reconciliation may seem basic, managing the underlying logistics can be far more complex. Some of the challenges include:
- Patient safety risks associated with inadequate medication history lists to make good clinical decisions
- Patient is a poor historian
- Caregiver has limited knowledge
- Incomplete documentation
- Financial impact of misdiagnoses
- Manually procuring medication history from multiple sources is a time-consuming and costly process
- Inefficient maintenance of the medication reconciliation paper trail
- Accurate and complete discharge medications lists difficult to provide to the patient/caregiver
- Writing discharge medication orders that are "Formulary Compliant" and with a co-pay acceptable to the patient
- Meeting Joint Commission (JCAHO) Requirements
- Identifying in the Emergency Department a patient’s existing medications while providing prescriptions upon discharge
- Attracting and maintaining affiliated physicians
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RcopiaAC Features and Benefits
- Improve care processes and gain efficiency
- Better manage patient flow to quickly and accurately move patients through your facility from admissions, transfer, and discharge
- Save significant time during the collection and maintenance of accurate medication lists
- Improve risk management and increase patient safety
- Reduce medication errors
- Automatically verify detailed real-time drug history from multiple data sources consolidated into one list
- Largest and most comprehensive access to medication history on the market
- Rcopia users, wide area patient search
- Includes patient data from DrFirst EMR partners
- RxHub, Mail Order PBMs and nationwide set of payers
- Proprietary payer engine data hosted directly with plans
- Comply with Joint Commission requirements
- Clinical decision support
- Checks for drug-to-drug and drug-to-allergy interactions and formulary compliance
- Reduce administrative costs associated with manual procurement of an accurate patient medication profile
- Allows for electronic prescribing upon discharge, which includes formulary data
- Eliminate callbacks from the pharmacy or the primary care doctor to change the script to comply
- Cutting-edge electronic prescribing and connectivity capabilities of DrFirst Rcopia
- Due to the lifting of the Stark Laws, hospitals can now provide doctors in their community with e-prescribing software
- With RcopiaAC in the hospital and Rcopia in the practices of hospital-affiliated providers, emergency-room staff and ambulatory providers will be linked together into a seamless network of care
- Improves physician relationship to the hospital
- Helps doctors take ownership of the medication reconciliation process rather than leaving it to the staff
- Develop a community around the collection, processing and displaying of data.
- RcopiaAC acts as a data warehouse to help the hospital collect information and feed it into other IT systems
- Phased approach to implementation
- RcopiaAC offers four major solutions for hospitals and health systems (any of these services can be broken out and purchased separately):
- Accurate and complete patient medication history and reconciliation from admission to discharge, inpatient and outpatient
- Medication history and electronic prescribing for Emergency Departments
- Electronic prescribing of outpatient medications at the time of discharge
- Electronic prescribing for hospital-affiliated providers
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