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Abstract
Medication errors affect millions of patients each year. These errors contribute to significant harm, including adverse events, increased costs of care, and even deaths. One way to prevent medication errors that result in patient harm is to reconcile the many medications lists the patients have Reasons for medication errors include the fact that a single medication can have multiple names, medication information is stored on various clinical systems, and medication management processes are often. Isolated and fragmented across multiple disciplines and organizations. The objective of this project was to obtain and analyze the stated and observed needs of pharmacists performing medication reconciliation in a typical long term care pharmacy and a typical community pharmacy. Once this information was available, it was used to identify functionality that is specifically tailored to the pharmacists who would be using the proposed medication.