In the crowded EHR market, many vendors are looking to stand out—by offering ever-better customer service, or by adding capabilities to help providers better meet the goals of the Triple Aim. One area in which EHRs can do more is aiding providers in tackling medication adherence.
Prescription drug management is one corner of medicine that suffers from a lack of transparency. It’s also marked by multiple breakpoints in communication that limit doctors’ and insurers’ efforts to make sure patients take their drugs properly, to avoid adverse events. But EHRs can become a conduit for both increased transparency around drug prices and for increased communications around whether patients are taking their drugs as prescribed.
