Using telehealth to conduct medication reconciliation.

MEDICATION error prevention; HOSPITAL emergency services; MEDICAL consultation; MEDICAL informatics; PHARMACISTS; TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE; MEDICATION reconciliation

The article discusses the use of telehealth technology in performing medication reconciliation for patients being triaged in the emergency department (ED). Topics covered include comments from Dr. Hanson Hsu, attending physician in Well Cornell's ED, on medication reconciliation, the launch of the telehealth medication reconciliation program at New York-Presbyterian, and the plan of New-York Presbyterian to expand the program.