Financial, Regulatory and Patient Safety benefits due to obtaining a complete medication history

This poster presentation will show the financial, regulatory and patient safety benefits when a complete medication history is taken in the critical care, inpatient and ambulatory settings.  With the advent of the EHR and multiple database technologies the patient is no longer the only source of information when collecting a medication history.   These technologies become even more important and beneficial when a patient is unable to communicate with clinicians.  The poster presentation will explore three different patient scenarios with and without a complete medication history.  The scenarios were chosen because they are all common in today’s healthcare setting.  The first scenario describes a pediatric patient with asthmatic episodes.  The second tells the story of a geriatric CVA patient.  While the third details out a geriatric orthopedic patient.  Each scenario will be broken down into three topics, patient safety, regulatory and financial.    Detailed data in relation to Joint Commission and CMS regulatory standards will be outlined as well as ICD-10 coding.  The purpose of this Poster is show the necessity for a complete medication history using all resources available.  In addition, the scenarios will show a return on investment when an outside resource is used as a secondary source of data if the patient is unable to communicate or does not have all the information necessary.