Medication Reconciliation Project at Allscripts Canada

Abstract

The author performed the Master of Health Informatics Internship at Allscripts Canada, a Health IT company that delivers information technology and services to help healthcare organizations achieve better clinical, financial and operational results. The author contributed to the Medication Reconciliation Specifications and Requirement for Canada project during the internship.

At the end of the internship, the author has successfully met the objectives and deliverables of this project, which are: • Clinical workflow diagrams of Medication Reconciliation best practices • Business requirements of proposed processes improvements • Presentation of the results and recommendations Also, this internship was highly related to the field of Health Informatics and provided the author invaluable experience and insights into Health Informatics.

This internship report introduces the background knowledge in Medication Reconciliation, describes the internship duties, learnings, and contributions, as well as analyses a problem in the domain of work and provides the solutions as a result.