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MyMeds and MedManager: Tools for Patient Safety and Convenience
MyMeds: A Tool for Patients
MyMeds is a tool within MyHealthArchive which encourages you to document and manage your medication information, including over-the-counter prescriptions and prescription medications, seamlessly through outpatient visits, emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and other major medical events.
MyMeds can be accessed from anywhere the Internet can be accessed, at any time by you and your physicians and healthcare providers. Patients can make their MyMeds information available to physicians who may need to have access to the list of medications their patients are taking at any point in their care.
The ability to access information about medications can prevent potential drug interactions and prescribing errors.
As active medications are discontinued, MyMeds automatically moves inactive medications to historical medications, so that it is easy to keep track of all active prescriptions by indication and prescriber.
As desired, MyMeds can notify your doctor and in appropriate circumstances, hospitals, of updates in the list. This is particularly helpful if you see multiple physicians in different outpatient clinics.
The list of medications from MyMeds can be printed, faxed, emailed, or directly interfaced into computerized physician order entry systems.
This facilitated transmission may be especially helpful in avoiding costly mistakes in transcription from one list of medications to another.
Additionally, MyHealthArchive can be accessed if a healthcare provider needs to obtain further information about a patient’s medical history from other treating physicians involved in the patient’s care.
MedManager: A Tool for Physicians and Healthcare Providers.
MedManager was specifically created as a means to communicate medication information to improve medication safety and communication between patients and healthcare providers across the continuum of care. MedManager is thus a unique medication reconciliation tool.
MedManager facilitates more accurate, timely and efficient medication prescribing processes involving physician and healthcare provider medication order entry and medication reconciliation at any transition point, such as at the time of hospital admission or discharge. MedManager was exclusively designed to provide seamless data capture and transfer between MyMeds and a hospital's medication ordering system in order to reduce the risk for medication errors arising at various transition points in the continuum of care. MedManager can be customized to a variety of medication order systems. We know from many studies that have evaluated medication safety that miscommunication between nurses, physicians and pharmacists can occur during any part of the medication administration process.
Eliminating the potential for human error is crucial. It is estimated that of all medication errors 39% to 49% occur at the time of the physician ordering process, 11%-12% occur in the medication transcription process, 11%-14% occur in the medication dispensing process, and 26%-38% occur in the medication administration process.1
Common errors in the physician ordering process include omissions of important medications and unintended changes in regimen. The interface between MedManager and MyMeds reduces the risk for human error at the most critical transition point: the time of hospital admission where there must be a reliable mechanism to accurately reconcile patients’ medications.
The seamless interface between MedManager and MyMeds enables physicians and healthcare providers to review active and historical medications, dosage, and indications for prescription accurately and timely.
MedManager helps to significantly reduce the concern for medication errors because there is now a reliable way to interface medications.
For hospitals that implement MedManager, the result is improved accuracy of medication reconciliation, reduction in delays in obtaining credible information about patient’s medication histories, reduction in risk for adverse events, and overall improved efficiency and effectiveness of the medication reconciliation process. 1 Source: Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events to Reduce Hospital Costs. Research in Action, Issue 1. AHRQ Publication Number 01-0020, March 2001. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
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