What is it about?
This objective of this study was to examine how physicians and pharmacists understand and communicate patient-focused medication information with each other and how this knowledge can influence the design of electronic health records.
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Why is it important?
When managing medications, there was limited communication and collaboration between primary care providers and pharmacists. Pharmacists were missing key information around reason for use, and physicians required accurate information around adherence. EHRs are a potential tool to help clinicians communicate information to resolve this issue. EHRs need to be designed to facilitate interprofessional medication management, so that pharmacists and physicians move beyond task-based work toward a collaborative approach.
Perspectives
This is part of my collaboration with Kelly Grindrod (Kate Mercer lead author and analyst) to understand medical records, decision making and medication better. While exploratory, this paper showed clearly that information gaps exist between primary care providers and pharmacists. (not surprising, but important to illuminate)
Dr Catherine M Burns
University of Waterloo
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This page is a summary of: Title: Playing Telephone: Understanding the state of medication decision making in growing healthcare teams in the time of electronic health records (Preprint), JMIR Human Factors, January 2018, JMIR Publications Inc.,
DOI: 10.2196/humanfactors.9891.
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