Medication Reconciliation at Advocate Healthcare

Joel S. Shoolin, DO, MBA, VP Clinical Informatics, Margie Hunssinger, RN, BC, Mgr. Clinical Analysts, CareConnection, Steven Sundberg, RPh, Pharmacy Director, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, and Paul Cook, Riverpoint Consulting, describe their multi-pronged approach to medication reconciliation design and implementation. Part of the approach involves an electronic process to advise the physicians of home, current, and recently discontinued medications. One attending physician describes it as “a godsend”!