Medication Reconciliation - some US work

Short entry for some work that I stumbled upon accidentally during vacation.

http://healthcare.nist.gov/resources/docs/FirstAmerican/NIST_NCPDPMedRecStdsOverview.pdf

This seems very consistent with the dimensions that we are working on (and I will try to formalize) for Medication Documentation (link missing :-( ). In any case, if the analysis goes to the data mechanisms we discussed in IHE Pharmacy, the amount of technical work seems very very small when compared to the dissemination and awareness material.

We are close to a medication structure compatible with
- NCPDP
- Blue Button
- CCR
- CDA / IHE Pharmacy
- HL7 v2 / IHE Pharmacy
- Vaccines

Use of Barcodes in Healthcare

This seems old and not including e.g. GS1 who has applied a great effort to consistent adoption.
But it's a very comprehensive and useful guide.

I'd put this on my must-read before any healthcare/pharmacy automation process.

Implementation Guide for the Use of Bar Code Technology in Healthcare

Most of this can be applied for basic uses of RFID. althought fortunately RFID technology is allowing uses that were not possible with barcode.