The program is designed to give physicians real-time medication histories when patients check into a hospital or emergency department.
Under the program, Horizon will pay for 85% of the costs of the technology up to $40,000 for each hospital. Chilton Memorial Hospital, a 256-bed facility in Pompton Plains, is an early adopter. Horizon expects up to eight hospitals will join the program by year-end.
The hospitals will use the RcopiaAC MedHx software of DrFirst Inc., Rockville, Md. The software queries the databases of recently merged SureScripts-RxHub for fill history from SureScripts’ national electronic prescription network and medication history from RxHub’s network of pharmacy benefit management firms. The software also queries the databases of DrFirst, a vendor of e-prescribing software.
More information is available at drfirst.com and horizonblue.com.
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