Medication Management and e-Care Planning: What are the Opportunities for the Future?

Effective communication and coordination of care is a priority strategy to improve health care quality in the United States. To address this strategy, care coordinators are being integrated into clinical practice settings and tasked with developing patient-centered care plans. One component of the care plan is the development of a medication list. This care plan medication list facilitates many medication management functions performed by pharmacists, such as identifying and resolving medication-related problems. Health information technology enables access to data to assist developing the medication list for the care plan and also provides routes to communicate the care plan with other health care providers, patients, and caregivers. The current article reviews the current landscape for promoting effective medication-related communication and care plan information.