Orion Health

Medicines

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

Orion Health Medicines aggregates medication data from multiple systems and care settings to display an up-to-date and accurate list of a patient’s medications.

This enables clinicians in hospital and community context to curate, review, modify and prescribe medications.

Benefits of Medicines

Authoritative medication list that follows the patient

Orion Health Medicines supports an accurate patient-centric medication record. Patients typically have numerous touch points with clinicians, from acute hospital admissions through to community and primary care appointments, resulting in multiple medication lists of varying accuracy and currency, with data siloed in separate clinical records. Orion Health Medicines present a platform where all authorised care providers can contribute, curate and share the patient’s medication therapy, producing the authoritative “managed list of medicines”.
Trusted medication record

Orion Health Medicines is a trusted platform that delivers a complete, patient-centric view of medications across the entire health and social care ecosystem. Clinicians can reconcile, review and modify medications. With data being aggregated in near real-time, medication data from any number of 3rd party sources, including physician prescriptions, pharmacy dispensaries, and hospital event summaries maintain a trusted medication record.
Improved medication safety

The integrated platform helps to reduce medication errors through the identification and resolution of medication discrepancies when curating the medication list. Clinicians can easily track changes in therapy, reasons for those changes, who made them and from which facility. Authorised care providers can view prescription orders and pharmacy dispensed medications in a consolidated view. This enables clinicians with an optimal and accurate view of medication information to help with informed decision-making.
Provides an integrated medicines ecosystem

The Medicines platform implements ingestion of SNOMED based medicines terminologies to manage the relationships between pharmacy branded products, generic concepts and 3rd party proprietary drug files. This enables data sharing between existing medication management solutions to create an integrated medicines ecosystem aligned to drug coding standards.
Access for patients to their medication record

Patients can view current therapy and administration schedule within their medication record . Alternative or over-the-counter medications are supported, which facilitates the ability to challenge the accuracy of their prescription record.
Promotes medication adherence

Medication non-adherence is a major clinical problem and there are many reasons for this. Strategies to improve medication adherence include patient education and involvement. Providing patients with an up-to-date and accurate list of their medications, can help patients to feel engaged in their healthcare, and assists them with guidance on their prescribed medications and how and when to take them.

Key Features

Medicines Core

The base platform, including drug file/medication terminology import and configuration (Global Drug Model), FHIR Medication statement API, FHIR Medication History API and Medication terminology/code mapping.

Clinical Documentation Components

A web-based application that integrates with Orion Health Care Pathways supports the curation and management of the authoritative medication list. Embedded in the current date view of medications, within clinical documents and pathways, enabling configuration of a variety of medication centric clinical documents and workflows. These include transfer of care documents, pharmacy care plans, medicines use review documentation and clinical referrals.

Global Drug Model

The Global Drug Model is an application designed to manage SNOMED medication terminologies, drug formulary configurations, pharmacy product and generic concept relationships. Ingested and made available via FHIR APIs, relational terminologies and simple drug files from local/in-region sources support the complex requirements of medication management applications.

FHIR Medication Statement

Stored within the Medicines solution, the FHIR Medication Statement API allows users to retrieve a patient’s current medication list and administration schedule details.

Medicines Viewer

The Medicines Viewer presents a consolidated view of all medications data, including externally sourced messaged prescription orders, dispense fill records, administrations, payer claims data and medication lists from externally sourced documents; combined with the curated authoritative current medication list. Coded medication data normalised to standard terminology concepts as applicable to the region, for example RxNorm, DM+D, AMT, and NZULM. Clinicians can search and filter the list of available data, and group by normalised medication name to reduce the clutter when reviewing a patient’s medication history.

Optional Add-Ons to Medicines

Medication Management

Supports clinicians within the acute care setting by providing reconciliation and review workflows, integration with external medication sources, admission to discharge transfer of care management, prescription generation and discharge medication schedules.

Community Medicines

Enables community-based care providers to actively manage the patient’s medication record and associated Care Plan. Supported workflows include medication reconciliation and review, management of self-prescribed over-the-counter medications and medication adherence progress.

Medicines Viewer

The Medicines Viewer provides a consolidated view across all medication information in the platform. Providing grouped and filtered normalised medication data and prescription records. Information privacy with break the seal are enforceable.

Medicines Decision Support

Amalgamating information from a back-end service and from multiple sources, Medicines Decision Support then displays this information at the point-of-care to help guide in the clinician’s decision-making process. Alerts include duplicate therapy checks, drug monographs for example NZULM, formulary preferences and configurable drug additional information.