An Elegant, Focused, System-Agnostic Solution for Medication Reconciliation Saves Nurse Time, Improves Patient Outcomes: MedsTracker by Design Clinicals

Every hospital struggles with medication reconciliation. Done right, it can provide immediate and dramatic impact on patient safety. Hospitals have learned one important fact: paper processes almost never work. Today’s big-box information systems, particularly when used in a multi-vendor hospital environment, don’t perform medication reconciliation particularly well. The result is wasted nurse time, poorly documented processes, and a lost opportunity to not just comply with a standard of care, but to really improve that care. Design Clinicals was formed by clinicians to develop an elegant, easily implemented solution to the medication reconciliation problem. We spoke to Mary VanHoomissen, vice president of implementations for the company.