Medication Management Software

• Charting and a consolidated view of medication administration information, including a list of prescriptions, dosage, route, a drug administration schedule, the prescribing physician's info, start date/stop date, etc.
• Automatically populating medication administration records with e-prescriptions from the EHR, e-prescribing, or pharmacy systems.

• Barcode scanning of medication packages and patients' wristbands to ensure the right patient gets the right medication.
• The automated update of the inventory system after medication administration.

• Customizable reminders for nurses on upcoming medication administrations.
• Alerts on late and missed doses for nurses and physicians.

Extended capabilities

• Documenting adverse drug events (ADE) identified after the drug administration with symptom logging and severity assessment.
• Instant messaging with patients, prescribing physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or care teams about medications, administration, or ADEs.
• Analytics for tracking adverse events and medication treatment efficacy.

• Creating and editing electronic prescriptions individually and in bulk.
• Templates for creating prescriptions for different medication regimens (e.g., scheduled, PRN (as needed), tapering, and multi-step regimens).
• Electronic prescription signing using mobile biometrics or two-factor authentication for controlled substances to support compliance with Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS).
• Sending e-prescriptions to the hospital's pharmacy or external pharmacies based on selected criteria (e.g., location, stock levels) or predefined rules (e.g., selecting a "favorite" pharmacy).
• Support for handling renewal and refill requests.
• Generating prescription lists of a patient's active, expired, and discontinued medications.
• Exporting prescriptions or prescription lists in different formats (e.g., CSV, PDF, or XML).

Extended capabilities

• A pharmacy catalog showing cost, inventory levels, and information related to the availability of lower-cost or therapeutically appropriate alternatives.
• Access to databases for tracking controlled substance prescriptions, like Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) in the US, to prevent patient substance abuse.
• Checking information on formulary or tiered formulary medications from the patient's drug plan.
• Filling authorization requests for drugs that are not included in a plan's formulary.
• Extracting information from handwritten or scanned prescriptions with the help of OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

• A consolidated view of a patient's demographic information, medical history, and medication history.

• An integrated medication knowledge base, containing drug names, classes, recommended dosages, FDA approvals, safety warnings, cost data, and other details.
• Search in the external medication databases, with filters (e.g., by drug class, indication, formulary status), autocomplete suggestions, and support for alternative drug names and common misspellings.

Extended capabilities

• Detecting potential drug-drug interactions, allergic reactions, therapeutic duplications, high-risk medications, wrong dosages, and unnecessary polypharmacy.
• Automatic dosage recommendations based on weight, age, and comorbidity considerations.

• Real-time medication stock level tracking (including the quantities on hand, quantities on order, and reserved stock) with exact counts at every transaction point with the help of barcode scanning or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
• Lot tracking for quickly locating a specific batch of medication (e.g., to remove an expired batch or to recall a batch if needed).
• Expiration and shortage alerts to staff, with recommendations to redistribute medications nearing expiry to higher-usage facilities.

Extended capabilities

• Automated medication orders to suppliers when stock levels fall below predefined thresholds.
• Support for multi-vendor sourcing and tools for price comparison to reduce procurement costs.
• Medication usage analytics to track inventory turnover, stock-out frequency and wastage rates, identify low- and high-usage drugs, and get recommendations to redistribute or dispose of underused medications.
• ML-supported medication demand forecasting considering historical usage patterns, seasonal and other trends.
• Diversion detection using AI/ML algorithms or rule-based logic, e.g., high-volume withdrawals by a specific user, frequent inventory discrepancies, drug access outside of scheduled administration times, frequent use of "waste" or "override" functions.

• Tools for uploading pre-admission medication lists and manually logging medication information gathered during patient appointments.
• Automatically comparing the patient's home medications with those prescribed at admission, during transfers between areas of the hospital, and upon discharge.
• Identification of discrepancies and mismatches in the medication lists and alerting medical staff.

Extended capabilities

• AI-powered extraction of medication information from disparate sources, like referral documents, handwritten medication lists, and photographs of medication bottle labels, and automatic population of the EHR.

• Requesting refills of the prescribed medications.
• Automated refill reminders based on remaining medication quantity and dosing schedule.
• Refill status view (e.g., pending, ready for pickup, shipped).
• Notifications when new prescriptions are ready.
• Medication reminders with dosage and intake instructions.
• Instant messaging with a prescribing physician, nurse, or pharmacist for asking medication-related questions.
• Patient educational materials and medication information sheets.
• Patient access to the medication history including a list of active, discontinued, and PRN (as-needed) medications.
• Exporting and sharing medication history in PDF, CSV, or other format for appointments or receiving emergency care in other healthcare organizations.
• Tools for manually logging medication intake.

Extended capabilities

• Medication adherence tracking with the help of IoT-enabled smart pillboxes.
• Alerts for missed doses, incorrect timing, or double dosing based on device input or user logs.

• Gamification features (e.g., badges) to encourage medication adherence.