Some things perform better when they’re tuned up. Orchestras and car engines, for example. It’s the same with EHRs. 

While electronic health record (EHR) systems have made big strides in functionality and features, many clinical workflows can benefit from a tune-up that refines established processes and limits workarounds for staff. Medication management is one area where integrated software can amp up your EHR performance. Gathering medication history, completing medication reconciliation, refilling prescriptions, and tracking adherence are all vital processes that can be a struggle for clinicians when patient data is incomplete and disorganized.

You can overcome these challenges by fine-tuning your Epic EHR in three ways:

 1. Streamline medication history workflows.

Your clinicians receive patients’ medication history in their EHR workflows via an external data feed, but information is often missing. And because your EHR and the systems used by pharmacies, payers, and health information exchanges often don’t speak the same language, it can be difficult to assemble a coherent clinical history for each patient. When clinical staff searches for the missing information by making phone calls to medical practices and pharmacies, they then must manually enter the information. These time-consuming and error-prone tasks can cause delays at critical parts and in all venues of the patient journey, such as admission, transitions of care, and discharge. Read more >