Bringing the Outside In

This year Fauquier Health System, an 86-bed community hospital in Warrenton, Va. entered into a joint venture with DrFirst (Rockville, Md.) for co-development of an IT product that met the needs for medication reconciliation within the hospital. “There are a lot of hospitals that are using automated processes for this,” says Donna Staton, CIO of Fauquier. “But for us, the ability to bring the outpatient medication record into the process is the real differentiator.”