Health information exchange shares medication histories

A health information exchange has partnered with a maker of health care software to provide its statewide membership with a platform that delivers patients’ “comprehensive” medication histories.

The nonprofit Great Lakes Health Connect in Grand Rapids, the largest health information exchange, or HIE, in Michigan, said this month that it will collaborate with Maryland-based DrFirst.

Through the partnership, the HIE’s 120 member hospitals and their physician providers now have access to DrFirst’s MedHx software, which is a cloud-based platform delivering complete medication history reports for specific patients.

 

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