A Foundation for the Medication Reconciliation Process

In 2006, The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) announced its Patient Safety Goal #8: to “accurately and completely reconcile medications across the continuum of care.” Ingenix MedPoint for Hospitals provides a patient’s prescription history (up to five years), including fill dates and specific drug details such as drug, dosage, frequency, and route. In addition, MedPoint leverages a proprietary database containing physician information to match a provider’s DEA identification number to prescriptions and delivers the prescribing physician’s demographic information as well as dispensing pharmacy information.

Secure and fully compliant with HIPAA mandates, this tool can help hospitals:

• Enhance patient safety with an accurate medication profile
• Reduce administrative costs associated with procuring that information
• Benefit immediately from web-based deployment

Speed, Accuracy, and Security Enhance Administrative Savings

Manually procuring medication history from multiple sources is a time-consuming and costly process. In contrast, a single MedPoint request initiates simultaneous queries to our multiple data sources and distills the results in a single report. Additionally, Ingenix employs exacting security measures in the storage and transmission of MedPoint data to maintain strict adherence with all U.S. privacy and confidentiality regulations governing protected health information.

Ease of Use

Real-time web access to prescription history eliminates the need to interrupt other IT initiatives. Ordering an individual’s MedPoint profile is no more complicated than using a search engine on the Web and is complete in three simple steps. 1 An authorized hospital representative submits a request through MedPoint. 2 The resulting prescription list is validated with the patient. 3 The validated prescription list is accessible at all transition points in the hospital.