Open AccessCancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting
Author(s) -
Taylor L. Watterson,
Jamie A. Stone,
Roger Brown,
Ka Zang Xiong,
Anthony Schiefelbein,
Edmond Ramly,
Peter Kleinschmidt,
Michael G. Semanik,
Lauren Craddock,
Samantha I. Pitts,
Taylor Woodroof,
Michelle A. Chui
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocab038
Subject(s) - medical prescription , pharmacy , medicine , electronic health record , specialty , health information technology , outpatient clinic , family medicine , health care , electronic prescribing , medical emergency , nursing , economics , economic growth
Medication list discrepancies between outpatient clinics and pharmacies can lead to medication errors. Within the last decade, a new health information technology (IT), CancelRx, emerged to send a medication cancellation message from the clinic's electronic health record (EHR) to the outpatient pharmacy's software. The objective of this study was to measure the impact of CancelRx on reducing medication discrepancies between the EHR and pharmacy dispensing software.