PROJECT AND PRODUCT OVERVIEW. MyMedsTracker is a personal medication adherence guide smart phone application connected to a Wi-Fi enabled pill dispenser with a prescription history as well as a medication adherence history that records medication times, missed meds, and both prescription and over the counter meds taken and sends an alert to a caregiver and family member for potentially serious missed meds (such as those that require blood tests) that can lead to serious Adverse Drug Events. This information is stored in the EMR and then sent to the CDC Adverse Drug Event active surveillance system on a weekly basis. A print out of prescription history including refills and prior prescriptions which were stopped, as well as a printout of the prior week’s actual medication history is available. This project will take 18 months from development to implementation. The budget for this project is $1.5 million. This pilot project will target seniors with Chronic Heart Failure in one regional health plan.
PROJECT AND PRODUCT OVERVIEW. The EHR and Clinical Research Data Integration Project aims to identify a method for improving data quality within research databases, maximize organizational workflow by reducing the need for data duplication by practitioners and research staff, and reduce research timelines and costs by decreasing the need for extensive data cleanup. The project will serve as a model for linking electronic health records (EHRs) with pertinent clinical research data that ultimately allows for cleaner and timelier information that can be analyzed more quickly by study teams and sponsors, while providing more accurate, real time administrative reporting. This project will take place within Emory University, an academic medical center, which conducts thousands of clinical trials annually across multiple locations. Initial cost for project is estimated at $1.79 million.
