• Horizon Meds Manager


Horizon Meds Manager™, a 2010 KLAS category leader in the Pharmacy (Community) market segment*, 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

Horizon Meds Manager v8.7.1 is an ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Modular Certified Product

Horizon Meds Manager v8.7.1 is 2011/2012 compliant and achieved ONC-ATCB modular certification** for the inpatient setting on Nov. 17, 2010 with the Drummond Group.

*Source: 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. © 2010 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. www.KLASresearch.com. All rights reserved. KLAS Enterprises, Inc. is a healthcare industry group that compiles customer feedback to determine the industry’s best systems and vendors.

**The Certification ID is 11172010-8616-8. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments. The 2011/2012 criteria support the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).