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ePMA

Deliver increased efficiencies, safety and outcomes for patients with electronic prescribing. Access, record and share real-time patient data.

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Clinicians in busy healthcare settings face increasing pressure to deliver safe, effective care while managing complex medication regimens, tight budgets, and faster discharge targets. Without a streamlined, real-time view of a patient’s medication history, clinicians can struggle to make fully informed decisions — increasing the risk of errors, delays, and inefficiencies.

Seamless, real-time medication management

Our electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution (ePMA) gives clinicians instant access to real-time patient data, helping them record, review, and share medication information across hospital teams. By delivering tighter control over drug budgets, speeding up discharge processes, and enhancing patient safety, ePMA empowers clinicians to make faster, safer prescribing decisions.

With intuitive, single-click actions, instant drug supply requests, and medicines reconciliation, ePMA supports a complete closed-loop prescribing process, ensuring safer and more efficient medication management.

Key features: 

  • Interactive drug chart: access key patient medication information from a single screen, making it easier to review, prescribe, and administer drugs.
  • Intuitive workflow: one-click prescribing for complex regimens, supporting all forms of UK prescribing practice, including acute and mental health settings.
  • Expandable medicine views: instantly access additional medication details when you need them, ensuring quick, informed decisions at the point of care.
  • Critical information highlighting: overdue doses and other key alerts are clearly displayed, giving you an at-a-glance view of what needs attention.
  • Discharge summaries: automates discharge information production, enabling faster, safer transfer of care from hospital to primary and community settings.
  • Comprehensive reporting & audits: capture high-quality data to support clinical audits, outcome reviews, and ongoing improvements in patient care.

The level of controls and flexibility is now quite remarkable. The potential benefits via management of prescribing, lack of transcription and no faxing of prescriptions are going to be enormous.

Professor Steve Bazire

OBE, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust

Key benefits

  • Quickly access up-to-date patient medication records to make safer, more informed prescribing decisions.
  • Reduce drug spend, wastage and prescribing errors with clear medication alerts and real-time data sharing.
  • Save time with one-click prescribing and automated discharge summaries.

ePMA is an Extra for Hospital Pharmacy

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