MEDCHART

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Why MedChart

Better Patient Experience means quicker discharge, less time in hospital, and appropriate medication in a timely fashion. MedChart promotes better care delivery to patients, by lowering risk of harm, medical errors and increasing compliance to best practice.

A continuous flow of patient medication information from outside the hospital, throughout the patient episode and then communicating to ongoing care providers. Informing inpatient and outpatient medication management, enhancing communication between hospital departments and between clinicians as they all view the same information.

Best practice implementation, resulting in better care. Increased appropriate, compliant prescribing with decision support, order sets, and clinical information available to prescribers.

Greater efficiency is achieved by paper free, “right first time” prescribing. Streamlining ordering and administration, with real time data flow removes bottlenecks. Leading to improved handover of ongoing care at the end of each episode of care.

Clinically designed, to ensure ease of use and low training requirements. Correct clinical information reduces medical errors and harm.

Footprint

Designed locally to support medication management processes in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
• MedChart has been successfully implemented in NHS trusts across the UK.
• MedChart is the only electronic medication management solution in Australia to have been implemented across all inpatient wards within both Public and Private hospitals.
• MedChart is implemented in a number of health districts using a nationally negotiated contract.

Features

Electronic orders
MedChart provides comprehensive support for prescribing including: scheduled prescriptions, variable-dose medication orders specifically for drugs such as warfarin, PRN and STAT orders, infusions and verbal/telephone orders. Ordering using quicklists and protocols enhances prescribing efficiency ensuring that pre-built orders based on best practice and a hospitals formulary are utilised.

Medication reconciliation
MedChart provides a flexible approach for prescribing and reconciling medications on inpatient admission. The solution supports the varying workflows that occur within the acute care setting. From recording a best possible medication history through to discharge medication prescriptions.

Clinical Pharmacy Review
Pharmacy review is supported and designed around Clinical and technical workflows that occur in most hospitals. Medicines are presented in work lists for individual verification, with clear visual guide for tasks.

Drug Administration
Clinically led design in medicines administration lists that clear, comprehensive and intuitive views of relevant information are presented at point of administration for nurses, in a busy ward setting. Including, the display of due and overdue medications, automated allocation of administration times based on frequency specified in order, and the ability to users with appropriate permission to edit administration times as required.

Clinical decision support
Clinically relevant information and alerts about the patient at the point of care. This information, provided in context, helps all clinicians make better decisions, prevent errors, and improve care quality and outcomes. A powerful rules engine to help support dosing decisions and local prescribing and administration policies and protocols.

Discharge prescribing
Prescribing discharge medications is efficient and easy utilising existing in patient medication orders or creating new prescriptions. All medication changes are tracked from admission to discharge highlighting all changes to the prescriber as part of the discharge process.

Reference Viewer
Local documents can be embedded and links to National prescribing guidance from external websites and local formularies located on the Trust intranet can be enabled.

Formulary Management
Trust can select the medicines that are identified as Trust formulary and these can be incorporated into structures as required and access granted or denied for specific users. Functionality such as the ‘quick lists’ and protocols enable Trusts to pre-define approved schedules.

Charts and History
The MedChart electronic medication chart is based on familiar and commonly used paper charts, easing the transition from paper to digital. Chart transcription errors are dramatically reduced, with clinical staff able to view and update a patient’s chart from any location.

Outpatients
Efficient recording and tracking of medications taken as an outpatient, including medications managed by the outpatient clinic. Linking medication information to and from recent inpatient episodes of care.