The Impact of Electronic Health Record Interventions on Patient Access to Post-Hospital Discharge Prescriptions.

Assess the impact of electronic health record interventions on patient access to post-hospital discharge prescriptions. Five interventions were implemented in the electronic health record to improve patient access to prescriptions after discharge from hospital: electronic prior authorization, alternative medication suggestions, order sets, mail order pharmacy alerts, and medication interchange instructions. This was a retrospective cohort study of patient responses from discharges during 6 months before the first intervention implementation and 6 months after the last intervention implementation documented in the electronic health record and a transition-in-care platform.