Impact of health information exchange access on medication management recommendations in a community-based pharmacy setting.

Background: Community-based pharmacists have historically lacked access to electronic medical records and clinical markers. Research was needed to assess the impact of obtaining clinical markers from a health information exchange (HIE) on pharmacist recommendations during a medication management encounter.

Objective: The objective of this project was to quantify and characterize clinical recommendations by pharmacists, resident pharmacists, or student pharmacists within an independent pharmacy setting that had access to patient information via an HIE.