Medication Safety

This research successfully adapted and evaluated scaling of the Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Adults Discharged from the Emergency Department medication safety program to an additional commercial electronic health record and added additional sites, finding a significant reduction in potentially inappropriate medication prescribing in the emergency department setting. 

This research explores the effectiveness of an e-prescribing tool to electronically communicate medication discontinuation orders between electronic health records and pharmacies.

This study showed the feasibility and value of creating a methodology and process for a health information technology black box to inform electronic health record design and usability.

This research assessed the etiology of medication ordering errors, finding that errors stemmed from multi-level risk factors and showing the utility of a void alert tool to prospectively capture the broad range of errors that may occur in practice that may be missed by using traditional retrospective error reporting methods.

This pilot project implemented a Social Knowledge Networking system and concluded that it supported progress toward meaningful use of medication reconciliation technology in an electronic health record.

This research showed that automated measurement of electronic order errors can be readily integrated into electronic health records to study the epidemiology of order errors and to test the effectiveness of proposed system improvements on order error outcomes.

This project convened stakeholder panels to inform the development of an indications-enabled computerized prescriber order entry system.

The purpose of this study was to refine and further develop the Leapfrog Computerized Provider Order Entry Evaluation Tool and assess hospital performance on the tool over time.