Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have found that the use of a better integrated computer system and process redesign could reduce the number of potential medication errors present in the medication reconciliation process. The study, published in the April 27 Archives of Internal Medicine, took place May–June 2006 and focused on using existing technology to compare patients’ medication lists to prevent adverse events. Of the 322 patients who were part of the study, 160 in the control group receiving the hospital’s normal med-ication reconciliation processes could have suffered 230 potential adverse events; the 162 patients who were part of the intervention could have suffered 170 potential adverse events.