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Review
. 2015 Jan;21(1):82-5.
doi: 10.1177/1078345814558228. Epub 2014 Nov 26.

Online medication history retrieval

Bruce W Herdman  1 , Sandy R Varghese  2 , Reed Bosch Domer-Shank  2
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Review

Online medication history retrieval

Bruce W Herdman et al. J Correct Health Care. 2015 Jan.

Abstract

The difficulty of obtaining accurate medication history from inmates at the time of incarceration is daunting. This article summarizes the success of a large urban jail in the use of online data to identify medication history upon incarceration. This article describes the scope of available prescription data, the implementation of online retrieval, system limitations, planned improvements, and suggestions of additional applications of online retrieval services.

Keywords: history; jail; online; prescription; retrieval.

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