Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Summary

• LTC industry is working on EHR-S standards
• LTC setting e-Prescribing can be supported with some technical modifications to the standards
• Additional research should be done on electronic prior authorization (e-PA)
• Further standards of eMAR and inventory management is needed
• These efforts are ways the industry is improving medication safety in the LTC setting