CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting.

Taylor L Watterson; Jamie A. Stone; Roger L. Brown; Ka Z Xiong; Anthony Schiefelbein; Edmond Ramly; Peter Kleinschmidt; Michael Semanik; Lauren Craddock; Samantha I. Pitts; Taylor Woodroof; Michelle A. Chui

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CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting.

September 1, 2021

Watterson TL, Stone JA, Brown RL, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021;28(7):1526-1533.

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Prior research has found that ambulatory electronic health records cannot communicate medication discontinuation instructions to pharmacies. In this study, the implementation of the CancelRx system led to a significant, sustained increase in successful medication discontinuations and reduced the time between medication discontinuation in the clinic EHR and pharmacy dispensing software.

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