Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration
Reducing medication errors, improving patient outcomes
Improved patient outcomes and the significant reduction of Adverse Drug Errors (ADEs) are made possible with Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (EMPA). EMPA systems reduceclinical risk and improve medication safety, resulting in significant reductions in medication errors and ADEs. In addition, they eliminate inefficiencies for greater cost savings.
HCIS Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration provides hospitals, clinics and aged-care facilities with an end-to-end EMPA solution. It transforms prescribing and medicines administration from a complex, time consuming manual and paper-based process, into an automated system that streamlines prescribing, clinical pharmacy review and administration processes, resulting in reduced risk, decreased errors, increased efficiency and improved coordination between clinical teams.
Designed by clinicians, HCIS Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration ensures adoption by staff is strong with users quickly realizing the benefits such as reduced task complexity and legibility of all prescriptions. The solution is tried, tested and proven to reduce medication management errors and inefficiencies, leading to fewer ADEs and better, safer patient care.
Key Benefits
- Accurate, efficient and timely medications administration
- A clear picture of each patient’s medication record, accessible at any time
- Reduction in manual, paper chart-based inaccuracies and medication errors
- Decision support configurable to support the various needs of the care team — promoting best practice whilst preserving clinical freedom
- Greater pharmacist/pharmacy involvement in clinical care
- Ability for nurses to co-ordinate care and share responsibilities
- Improved communication between nursing, medical and pharmacy staff
- Configurable protocols to support quality-based, complex prescribing
- Security and traceability throughout the medication process
Key features
- Electronic medication chart
- Electronic prescribing
- Pharmacy review
- Medication reconciliation
- Clinical pharmacy review
- Ward overview
- Medication administration
- Clinical decision support
- Reference viewer
- Offline chart backup facility