Medicines

An integrated solution for a complete, patient-centric view of medications

Clinicians, in hospital or in the community, can curate, reconcile, review and modify medications, while also generating prescriptions.

With medication data from physician prescriptions, community pharmacy dispensaries, and hospital discharge summaries - all aggregated in near real-time - healthcare providers gain an accurate, comprehensive view of a patient’s medication history in support of effective and safe care delivery.

Benefits of Medicines

Trusted medication record

On admission to hospital, clinicians are supported with a complete view of a patient’s medication record. Previously validated medications lists are presented in a timeline view to track changes in therapy, and are aligned with the patient’s clinical data including diagnoses, allergies, adverse reaction details, or any data entered by the patient. This longitudinal view supports the clinician to reduce medication errors and duplicated effort, and enables greater insight into the patient’s medication history and response to changes.
Open FHIR APIs

Patients and authorised care providers from across the community can utilise modern, secure data storage technologies and open FHIR APIs to safely interact with a single, shared medication record. Open APIs promote the innovation and development of new patient-centric applications to encourage adherence and wellness. This forms the basis of a flexible, scalable solution supporting the wider health ecosystem, benefitting both care providers and the patient.
Integrated community-wide platform

Authorised care providers across the community can reconcile, review and modify a patient’s therapy, resulting in an authoritative managed list of medicines. Patients can interact with their medication record, and enhance it by reporting adherence or any medication related issues. Patients can update their medication list to include over-the-counter and alternative medications.
Rich, codified medication data

Prescription data and information on a patient's current therapy is aggregated from multiple systems, and integrated into one unified code set to enable decision support at an individual level. Clinicians can stratify risks across population cohorts to drive personalised decision-making that improves clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and financial results.

Key Features

Managed List of Medicines

Managed List of Medicines provides the core medication data model, formulary management, prescription data integration and standardised medication APIs to manage an authoritative medication list. Medication terminologies specific to each region are imported and maintained. This will enable advanced clinical decision support to service the hospital and across the wider community.

Community Medicines

Community Medicines is deployed as a core component of Orion Health Coordinate to enable care providers in the community to collaboratively manage a patient’s medications. All participants in the care team can contribute to maintaining an active medication list for the patient, and view prescription and dispensing information from disparate sources across the community. This enables community-based physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners and care coordinators to reconcile, review and prescribe medications where appropriate within a single integrated platform.

My Medicines

My Medicines, as part of Orion Health Engage, provides patients with access to view and self-manage their own medication record, and gives their Circle of Care members a complete view of their medication history. Patients can connect with their primary physician and other authorised care providers across the community, and all share a common view of the patient’s latest medication information. Patients have the ability to comment, question and review their prescription information, and add to their record, through the new self-prescribed ‘over the counter’ medications, and can record their adherence to their treatment plan.