Case Study: Boone Hospital achieves faster medication reconciliation and e-prescribing with DrFirst SmartStrings

Boone County Hospital Critical Access Hospital Improves Medication Reconciliation Workflow with Improved SIG Data

Boone Hospital, a critical access hospital in central Iowa, was struggling with heavy resource demands and inefficient medication workflows. After implementing MEDITECH 6.0 and CPOE, the hospital still faced gaps such as missing quantity fields and time-consuming manual work to build useful medication order strings for medication reconciliation and e-prescribing.

DrFirst provided SmartStrings, a medication lookup and data subscription solution for MEDITECH, to streamline the process. With DrFirst, Boone Hospital reduced manual scripting, enabled one-click selection of medication order strings, and made prescription writing faster and easier; the result was improved workflow, better medication reconciliation, and more time for doctors to spend with patients.

Boone Hospital

Sondra Donald

PharmD, Pharmacy Director