Differences, Opportunities, and Strategies in Drug Alert Optimization-Experiences of Two Different Integrated Health Care Systems.

Background: Concerns about the number of automated medication alerts issued within the electronic health record (EHR), and the subsequent potential for alarm fatigue, led us to examine strategies and methods to optimize the configuration of our drug alerts.

Objectives: This article reports on comprehensive drug alerting rates and develops strategies across two different health care systems to reduce the number of drug alerts.

Methods: Standardized reports compared drug alert rates between the two systems, among 13 categories of drug alerts.