• Horizon Meds Manager


Horizon Meds Manager™ is a comprehensive pharmacy information solution which optimizes pharmacy performance, improves provider workflow and ensures patient safety. Horizon Meds Manager is an integral component of McKesson' Medication Safety Advantage™, offering tight integration with Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) solutions so the pharmacy can electronically receive, verify and send medication orders, eliminating manual transcription and preventing medication errors. The solution captures medication use across care settings and disciplines, linking all patient encounters in a real-time electronic chart.

Benefits

  • Enables quick order entry and dispensing with universal protocols for medications, IVs, IVPB and TPNs, and the seamless entry of multiple order types on a given patient
  • Helps to reduce medication errors through integration with First DataBank’s knowledge bases for compliance monitoring, drug-dose checking, patient consultations, allergy screening, drug-interaction screening, therapeutic duplication and drug-disease interactions
  • Improves the efficiency of pharmacists by freeing them from clerical tasks and enabling more active participation in rounding and clinical tasks with an objective of improving medication management
  • Reduces costs through features such as automatic therapeutic interchange that automates the substitution of preferred formulary items based on dose, frequency and route conversions

Features

  • Electronic medication order processing
  • Advanced clinical tools, including a user-defined rules engine
  • Integrated workflow through an electronic work list
  • Robust online clinical documentation
  • Automatic intervention documentation
  • Integration with physician order entry applications
  • Laboratory integration and alerts
  • Patient education tools


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