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MedHx Case Study

MedHx Enables Regional Health to Collect, Verify, and Document a Patient’s Medication History in Less Than 15 minutes

Introduction

This case study of Regional Health is based on a July 2020 survey of MedHx customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

MedHx has increased our capacity while providing an accurate and very thorough med list.

- Dana Darger, Director of Pharmacy, Regional Health

Challenges

Main reasons for implementing MedHx at their organization:

  • To improve accuracy and completeness of the home/prior-to-admission medication list

Before implementing MedHx it typically took 15-29 minutes to collect, verify, and document a patient’s medication history.

Use Case

Level of satisfaction with the implementation of MedHx at their facility:

  • Knowledge and performance of the implementation team: extremely satisfied
  • Implementation team’s understanding of their clinical workflow needs: extremely satisfied
  • Process to benchmark satisfaction and identify key performance indicators prior to go live: extremely satisfied
  • Implementation team’s ability to support the go-live in a timeframe that best met your organizations needs: extremely satisfied

Results

After implementing MedHx with SmartSig, they are able to receive 25-50% more more patient medication history.

After implementing MedHx it typically takes less than 15 minutes to collect, verify, and document a patient’s medication history.

The value of MedHx to each of the different user roles at their hospital:

  • Pharmacy: extremely valuable
  • Nursing: very valuable
  • Doctors: extremely valuable
  • Informatics: very valuable
  • Clinical leadership: extremely valuable




About This Data

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