Medication Management: From Community Hot Topics to Best Practices

The recent Infoway Partnership conference included a session featuring the Medication Management community. Conference delegates including clinicians, vendors, data analysts, researchers, regulators, and those in health informatics participated.

The Medication Management community was launched in January 2015, and has grown to over 300 members. The scope of this group is quite broad and includes conversation on medication reconciliation, drug standards and terminology, the opioid crisis in Canada and e-prescribing including PrescribeIT™, Canada’s national e-prescribing service.

During the session, assisted by real-time polling, participants weighed in on topics that they would like to see highlighted on the community, as it enters its third year.

Top 5 areas of interest:

1. E-prescribing,
2. Electronic medication reconciliation and
3. Clinical decision supports for medications
4. Medication adherence (e-solutions)
5. Provincial drug information systems

New topics suggested:

1. How to electronically return medication reviews to prescribers,
2. Medication safety and
3. Developing an online summary of projects taking place in Canada

Overall, there was great discussion in how to continue to keep the community engaged with relevant content. Participants were encouraged to share the community with their colleagues.

Most importantly, participants in the session valued the Medication Management community for enabling relevant discussions, knowledge sharing and collaboration with the common goal to advance medication safety across Canada.

See the full discussion guide/presentation and share your feedback here in the forum.