Reconciling Medications with Pharmacy Connect

If Pharmacy Connect is installed and configured at a site, clinicians can use it to reconcile tracked medications (either controlled or non-controlled substances).

When a tracked medication is dispensed for a patient, Anesthesia Touch will display it on the medication grid.

If no administrations are charted for the medication, and it is not returned or wasted to reconcile the dispense action, Anesthesia Touch will show an alert for the drug:

Alerts for unreconciled medications will appear when trying to finish a case (printing and sending the Anesthesia Record), either requiring you to acknowledge the alert (a soft alert) or preventing finishing the case until the issue is resolved (a hard alert):

Before finishing the case, tap Med Recon at the bottom of the Interop screen to see the details for Medication Reconciliation.

The Med Recon screen will show each medication, highlighting unreconciled ones. The Med Recon box for each drug shows the dispenses, returns, wastes, and total administered:

To add an administration to the IntraOp Record, return to IntraOp and chart the medication as normal from the medication grid. The administration appears on the grid as normal.

Returning to the Med Recon screen, the administration will be immediately reflected for the medication:

Medications can be returned or wasted at the dispensing system to reconcile the medication's balance. Anesthesia Touch will update in real time with information from the dispensing system.

Optionally, some installations may allow clinicians to document waste directly in Anesthesia Touch. Clinicians may be allowed to document exceptions to clear alerts as a separate option. For more information on this, go to Documenting Exceptions in Pharmacy Connect.