Case Study: Boone County Hospital achieves faster, simpler medication reconciliation with DrFirst SmartStrings

Critical Access Hospital Improves Medication Reconciliation Workflow with Improved SIG Data

Boone County Hospital, a 15–16‑patient critical access hospital in central Iowa, had implemented MEDITECH 6.0 and CPOE but still faced workflow gaps in medication reconciliation. Quantity fields were often missing and a small pharmacy team spent significant time researching and manually building useful medication order strings, diverting staff from direct patient care.

Boone adopted DrFirst’s SmartStrings integration with MEDITECH, which provided a maintained lookup and one‑click medication order strings; implementation required only a few hours of route/unit/frequency mapping and no custom scripting. The change sped up prescribing and reconciliation, ensured appropriate doses, quantities, and instructions were available, and gave clinicians more time to focus on patient care.

Boone County Hospital

Sondra Donald

Pharmacy Director