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.
Benefits of Medicines
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.


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 normalized to standard terminologies (e.g. RxNorm, NDC). Clinicians can search and filter the list of available data, and semantically group by normalized medication name to reduce the clutter when reviewing a patient’s medication history.
Clinical Documentation Components
A web-based application that integrates with Orion Health Care Pathways supports the localization of the medication assessment, medication therapy management (MTM) pathways, and transfer-of-care documentation. Embedded smart medication widgets facilitate a current view of medications within the clinical documentation, enabling configuration of a variety of medication centric clinical documents and workflows.

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. Native adoption of the RxNorm terminology and related concepts are made available via FHIR APIs to support the complex requirements of medication management applications including real-time normalization and embedded drug knowledge.
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.
Optional Add-Ons to Medicines
Community Medicines
Enables community-based care providers to actively manage the patient’s medication record and associated Care Plan. Supported workflows include medication list curation, 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 normalized medication data and prescription records. Information privacy with the ability to break the seal is 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, formulary preferences, and configurable drug additional information.