Rx Med History

In order to start receiving patient's medication history from the PBMs you will need to complete the following steps:

• Preference -> Medication -> EnableRxHub Medication History = Y

• Preference -> Medication -> Med History Query Duration = (set value selecting 1 to 24 months)

• Preference -> Medication -> Medication History (default value for Med Hx Consent) = Unknown, once the patients signs the consent you can change this to Granted or Declined

Medication history happens automatically with every scheduled visit or it can be manually initiated by hitting the "check eligibility" button in the demographic section. The former process works well, but the latter only works with some users, and it cannot be initiated twice within 24 hours. That means the administrative person may trump the nurse or provider who interacts with the patient later during a clinic session.

Benefits are often overlooked in medication reconciliation because it adds another source of information from the community. When pharmacy benefit programs participate in this, and most do, the medication record will be more complete than being dependent on the patient and provider alone.

Depending on state law, the patient's permission may be needed to perform this query of outside records.