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Posted February 21, 2008
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: Business News
Portage Health System Licenses Electronic Medication Reconciliation System by MediModules
Brooklyn, NY, February 15, 2008 — MediModules, Inc., a leading provider of patient-centric clinical software applications, announces that Portage Health System of Hancock, Michigan, has licensed MediRecon™ to serve as their electronic medication reconciliation solution.
MediRecon will help Portage Health System improve their medication reconciliation process by providing a secure, seamless workflow for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists to reconcile medications across the continuum of care. It also ensures patients' involvement in this critical process with a unique, bidirectional connectivity to MediModules' free, personal medication record system, MyMediList.org. MediRecon is a first-of-its-kind application developed with Joint Commission compliance and patient safety at the core.
"Medications errors are responsible for thousands of preventable deaths annually and an effective medication reconciliation process can significantly improve patient safety", explains Munish Khaneja, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of MediModules. MediRecon integrates the medication reconciliation process into clinical workflow to reduce medication errors.
MediModules is constantly striving to improve its applications and will be releasing MediRecon version 1.5 in the coming weeks. This new version will feature secure innovative tools, such as web-based faxing and secure messaging, to enhance provider-to-provider communication. MediRecon v1.5 also boasts an advanced user interface using Web 2.0 technology.
MediModules is a health IT company based in New York whose mission is to promote patient safety, improve healthcare efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance by creating innovative, state-of-the-art software applications for all healthcare settings. MediModules applications are designed by physicians for physicians with years of experience in healthcare and IT and a clear understanding of clinical workflow. MediModules also provides competitively priced information technology infrastructure services specifically geared for healthcare industry.
Portage Health System is a multi-facility Joint Commission accredited healthcare system headquartered in Hancock, MI that comprises of acute inpatient services, short and long term chronic care facilities. The mission of Portage Health System is to be the first place where people come when they need healthcare, to be a leader in promoting healthy lifestyles, and to be the place where people want to work.
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