Geisinger & Merck Unveil EHR-Embedded Apps For Medication Management, Care Coordination

Geisinger Health System (Geisinger) and pharmaceutical company Merck recently announced they are releasing two new electronic health record (EHR) embedded apps for improved medication management and care coordination. The two apps—which are both built to gather data from multiple EHR platforms—and their functionalities include:

Family Caregiver Application – An app that creates two-way communication between clinical professionals and consumers
MedTrue – An app that collects information from different data sources to bolster medication adherence and reconciliation

Geisinger plans to use the apps to clean-up consumer medication lists, of which the company states about 70% are inaccurate—something that . . .