Faculty Articles
Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Enables Delivery of Medication Histories to the Primary Care Clinician.
Publication Title
AMIA Annual Symposium proceedings
Publisher
American Medical Informatics Association
ISSN
1942-597X
Publication Date
11-13-2010
Keywords
Ambulatory Care, Community Health Centers, Continuity of Patient Care, Humans, Office Visits, Primary Health Care
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The goal of the Enhanced Medication History (EMH) project is to provide medication histories to ambulatory primary care practices in the Indiana Network for Patient Care.
METHODS: Medications were aggregated from three different sources of pharmacy data (Medicaid, SureScripts, and the county health system of Indianapolis). Dispensing events were assembled into the Continuity of Care Document (CCD), and presented to clinicians as RxNorm Clinical Drugs.
RESULTS: The EMH project completed 46 weeks of operation in a community health center in Indianapolis. Medication Histories were generated for 10498 office visits for 4449 distinct patients. Seven (of nine) attending physicians responded to a written survey and found the Medication Histories useful (3.9±0.4 on a scale of 1 to 5).
CONCLUSION: Implementation of the EMH project demonstrated the successful use (as well as the challenging aspects) of the CCD and the RxNorm terminology in the outpatient clinical setting.
Volume
2010
First Page
747
Last Page
751
Disciplines
Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences | Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy
NSUWorks Citation
Simonaitis, Linas; Belsito, Anne; Cravens, Gary D.; Shen, Changyu; and Overhage, J Marc, "Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Enables Delivery of Medication Histories to the Primary Care Clinician." (2010). Faculty Articles. 1511.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_com_faculty_articles/1511