MedChart. Electronic Medication Management system. Available on Cloud Managed Service.

Why MedChart

MedChart is a comprehensive electronic medication management system that promotes better care delivery to patients, by lowering prescribing error rates and serious prescribing errors*, as well as supporting compliance with best practice.

*Reference: Westbrook, J. I., Reckmann, M., Li, L., Runciman, W. B., Burke, R., Lo, C., Baysari, M. T., Braithwaite, J., & Day, R. O. (2012) Effects of two commercial electronic prescribing systems on prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients: A before and after study. PLoS Med 9(1): e1001164. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001164

It aids communication by providing a continuous flow of patient medication information from outside the hospital, throughout the patient episode and then communicating that to ongoing care providers in the community. Informing inpatient and outpatient medication management, it also enhances communication between hospital departments and between clinicians as they all view the same information.

MedChart follows established clinical workflows found in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom  supporting compliant prescribing through decision support, order sets, and clinical information being available at the point of care. Clinically driven design also assists with ease of use and low training requirements.

Efficiency is supported by paper-free prescribing and order sets. Streamlining ordering and administration with real time data flow, also facilitates removal of bottlenecks and assists in handover of care. **

**  Lo, C., Burke, R., & Westbrook, J. I. (2010). Electronic medication management systems’ influence on hospital pharmacists’ work patterns. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 40(2), 106-110. doi:10.1002/j.2055-2335.2010.tb00516.x

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. Medicines can also be re-prescribed from previous episodes to aid efficiency and reduce the need for transcription.

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, blocking and / or annotation, with a clear visual guide for tasks.

Drug Administration

Clinically led design of medicine administration lists provides clear, comprehensive and intuitive views of relevant information at the point of administration for nurses, in the busy ward setting. This includes the display of due and overdue medications, automated allocation of administration times based on the frequency specified in the order, and the ability for users with appropriate permission to edit administration times as required.

Clinical Decision Support

Clinically relevant information and alerts about the patient are available at the point of care. This information, provided in context, helps all clinicians make better decisions that assist in error prevention and support the quality of care. A powerful rules engine supports dosing decisions, as well as local prescribing and administration policies and protocols.

Discharge Prescribing

Prescribing discharge medications is efficient and easy, utilising existing in-patient medication orders. All medication changes are tracked from admission to discharge, highlighting a comprehensive view of all changes to the prescriber as part of the discharge process, supporting reconciliation and informed prescribing decisions at discharge.

Reference Viewer

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

Formulary Management

Hospitals can select the medicines that are identified as hospital formulary and these can be incorporated into structures as required and access granted or denied for specific users. Functionality such as the ‘quicklists’ and protocols enable hospitals 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 minimised, with clinical staff being able to view and update a patient’s chart from any location.

Outpatients

MedChart enables efficient recording and tracking of medications taken as an outpatient, including medications managed by the outpatient clinic. It also facilitates the linking of medication information to and from recent inpatient episodes of care.

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