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InterMedHx, Inc. introduces RxHx, a new ground-breaking tool for automating the first step of the medication reconciliation process:retrieving accurate home prescription medication histories. The task of medication reconciliation, if performed at all, is difficult and costly. As a first step, hospital providers are tasked with obtaining a list of a patient's current home medications, health supplements, and allergies at time of registration. A practitioner must verify the patient's medication history along with the name, dosage, frequency and route of each medication. Verification can take more than 20 minutes to perform. Patients are often unable to remember or unwilling to divulge the names and dosages of their medications such that family members, physicians, and pharmacies must be contacted. This time-consuming process is now a JCAHO imperative. Given current personnel shortages, providers are further challenged to meet today's medication reconciliation mandates in a cost-effective and accurate manner.
InterMedHx's RxHx is here to address this challenge.
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