Roundtable white paper: Improving smart medication management (6 January 2022)

Summary

This white paper documents a roundtable discussion held at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care in Europe 2021. Participants discussed how smart medication management can be improved to optimise healthcare quality and efficiency. The meeting was chaired by Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li, a researcher of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and medical informatics, and editor-in-chief of BMJ Health and Care Informatics.

Content

Topics covered include:

• Medication lists and medication changes
• Computerised prescribing
• IT systems
• Overreliance on technology
• Better education for medics
• Patient engagement and appropriate information
• Patient follow-up and real-world surveillance
• Measuring outcomes
• Outlook in the future