Feature Fridays: Making Medication Management Smarter with Medication Journey Enrichment
Welcome back to Feature Fridays—our summer series spotlighting the tech powering Zus, the platform redefining the patient record.
This week, we’re focusing on something every care team depends on: medication clarity.
Because when prescriptions are fragmented across systems, formats, and doses, it’s not just frustrating—it’s risky.
Why we built Medication Journey Enrichment:
Care teams need to know what medications a patient is on. But that’s easier said than done.
Every dose change, refill, or pharmacy source can generate a different entry. Add in conflicting codes, generic vs. brand names, and 5 versions of warfarin across 6 encounters—and suddenly, a single therapy becomes a needle-in-a-haystack problem.
That’s where Medication Journey Enrichment comes in:
A smarter way to understand what your patients are really taking—and when.
What this feature does:
Care teams need to know what medications a patient is on. But with every change in dose or format—plus different systems using different codes—that’s easier said than done.
A common example? Warfarin. A patient may have been prescribed five different strengths across six encounters, each with its own National Drug Code (NDC). Some systems may list it under 5mg, some under 2.5mg, some under brand names like Coumadin. Good luck connecting those dots manually.
Medication Journey Enrichment simplifies this chaos by:
- Normalizing and enriching med data using RxNorm — so you get clear, standardized meds with clinical context
- Enabling active-ingredient-level grouping in the ZAP UI — so “warfarin” shows up once, with dose changes and dates just a click away
- Preserving original codes — so you always have traceability for audits, reconciliation, or clinical review
The result?
A clear, longitudinal view of a patient’s medication journey, organized by what matters most: the actual therapy.
Why you should care:
Whether you’re reconciling meds post-discharge, tracking adherence to a statin for HEDIS, or just trying to get your arms around what a new patient is taking, this clarity matters.
With Medication Journey Enrichment, you can:
- Quickly identify a patient’s current and historical medications
- See dosing adjustments and refill patterns at a glance
- Group meds by therapeutic class or active ingredient for easier outreach and intervention
- Support HEDIS measures and adherence monitoring with normalized, queryable data
- Avoid redundant prescriptions or med conflicts by seeing the full picture
And because it’s built into the Zus Aggregated Profile (ZAP) and Zus Data Marts supports work across the care spectrum—from point-of-care review to population-level insights.
You’re not just managing one patient’s med list—you’re analyzing thousands at once.
Under the hood (so you don’t have to be):
- 90%+ of medications normalized to RxNorm
- Supports mapping from messy NDC, RxNorm, and brand/generic variations
- Integrated with ZAP and Zus Data Marts for queryable population insights
- Original source codes always retained for auditing and clinical review
- Continuously refreshed to reflect new fills and changes from across EHRs, Surescripts, and other sources
Medication data shouldn’t be a black box.
With Medication Journey Enrichment, your team can finally see the full picture—clearly, confidently, and at scale.
Talk to our team to see how it works inside ZAP and Zus Data Marts.
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