Optimise medication management
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Enhance patient safety, streamline workflows, and ensure precise medication delivery with Better Meds.
Enable safer medication management and facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration between doctors, pharmacists, and nurses.
Improve clinical outcomes with collaborative approach
Optimise the work of healthcare professionals with an award-winning solution Better Meds. Designed for hospital use, it enables you to integrate it with key clinical systems, such as electronic patient records, native dictionaries of medicines, pharmacy systems, and other ePMA solutions.
Created as a stand-alone solution, compatible with all electronic patient record systems.
Better Meds features at a glance
Allergy module
Increase patient safety with allergy-related warnings
Medication reconciliation
Ensure an accurate and comprehensive medication list upon admission, transfer, and discharge.
Pharmacy integration
Order, review, confirm, reject, or suspend requests with one click.
Outpatient prescribing
Simplify the creation, reissuing, modification, and printing of patient prescriptions.
Reduce costs and paper waste.
Due to the elimination of printing, over 1,35 million sheets of paper can be saved annually.
Digital transformation results in 90% of processes being paperless.
Profit from a better user experience.
In designing an intuitive interface and streamlined workflows, we collaborate with doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
Enhance collaboration with seamless integrations and APIs.
Better Meds offers extensive integrations with key clinical systems, including pharmacy systems, ward cabinets, and oncology prescribing. The flexible APIs ensure smooth connectivity, allowing for enhanced collaboration.
Be part of an active user community.
Meet a vibrant community of healthcare professionals at least once per year who gather for regular annual community events and exchange experiences and best practices.
Save time and streamline work.
840 hours a year from pharmacists no longer having to look for charts.
60 hours a week for doctors not having to transcribe medicines in discharge letters.
12 hours a week for doctors not having to rewrite medication charts.
30% time saved for nurses in preparing medicines.*
Work closely with an experienced and expert implementation team.
The Better Meds team offers both clinical and technological expertise to efficiently assess individual challenges that each hospital faces.
Customers receive comprehensive support, training, and ongoing assistance to ensure success. A proven track record of successful deployments – four new NHS deployments in five months, including two go-lives at two different trusts on the same day.
Resolve medication errors and improve clinical outcomes.
There are approximately 237 million medication errors over a year in one country, with 66 million of them potentially clinically significant. Paperwork represents one of the main risks for errors.
Clear medication overview without the need for handwriting deciphering is essential for safety.
Better Meds key features
Provide doctors with safer electronic medication prescribing, supported by feedback from pharmacists. With the help of a clear medication administration overview, nurses no longer must worry about the accuracy or type of medication they need to administer.
Medication reconciliation and summary
It captures prescriptions from different sources, creates a medication list on admission, reconciles the prescription list upon discharge, and provides effortless reviewing and managing of prescriptions.
Inpatient prescribing
With inpatient prescribing, paediatric prescriptions, as well as simple and complex IV prescriptions, are enabled. It provides an audit log of prescriptions and changes for improved transparency, supports titration, and enables real-time warnings when connected to a decision-support system.
Outpatient prescribing
Outpatient prescribing supports printing FP10s and custom-made forms, reviews, confirms, and suspends requests, and it allows for reissuing, modifying, and deleting created prescriptions.
Order sets
Order sets in Better Meds are organisational, patient-related, and user-related. Search option is also included.
Pharmacy integration
Order, review, confirm, reject, or suspend requests with one click.
Administration audit trail
Better Meds enable a complete and informative audit trail (time, author of action, etc.).
Allergy module
The allergy module increases safety using allergy-related medication warnings.
Medication administration record
With medication administration records, nurses have a clear timeline of upcoming medication administrations. The system supports the creation of daily medication administration plans, automates task generation, supports bar code scanning, includes witnessing, and enables medication titration.
Discharge summary
The discharge summary offers a clear overview of medications on admission, as well as stopped, suspended, and new medications, and it provides an audit log of all medication changes.
Clinical pharmacist review
The clinical pharmacist review in Better Meds eliminates time loss due to patient record searches, it provides structured, paperless pharmacist review reports, and offers faster and improved communication and collaboration for medical teams.
Reporting dashboard
With reporting dashboards, near real-time reporting with visual reports is allowed, it enables referring prescriptions back to prescribers, and provides an overview of pharmacist reviews.
Choose Better Meds and save time for better care, resolve errors, and improve clinical outcomes.
Better Meds EDU
Equip students with the necessary skills in electronic prescribing and medication administration.
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Prescribe safer with Better EPS
Integrated within our ePMA Better Meds or stand-alone, our Better Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) for secondary care and outpatient settings enables direct transmission of prescriptions to community pharmacies and has NHS Full Rollout Approval.
FAQ
What is Better Meds?
Better Meds is an electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePMA) solution that replaces paper drug charts with a digital system for managing medications more safely and efficiently across hospital inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
Who is Better Meds for?
Better Meds is designed for hospital use as well as community healthcare providers aiming to improve medication safety, streamline prescribing and administration processes, and ensure compliance with clinical policies.
What are the benefits of Better Meds?
Better Meds reduces medication errors through allergy recording, drug-interaction checking, and medication reconciliation. It speeds up prescribing workflows, integrates directly with pharmacy systems to eliminate manual re-entry, and gives clinicians a complete, real-time view of a patient’s medication history. Better Meds is also available as a mobile app, so clinicians can manage medications on the go.
Does Better Meds work with other hospital systems?
Yes. Better Meds integrates with patient administration systems (PAS), laboratory systems, and pharmacy systems. It works natively with Better Platform for unified, real-time data access across all clinical applications.
What is Better EPS and how does it relate to Better Meds?
Better EPS (Electronic Prescription Service) is a module that can be used integrated within Better Meds or deployed as a standalone solution. It enables direct electronic transmission of outpatient prescriptions to community pharmacies and holds NHS Full Rollout Approval.
Does Better Meds support outpatient prescribing?
Yes. Outpatient prescribing is supported through the integrated Better EPS module, which enables electronic transmission of prescriptions to any EPS-enabled community pharmacy in England.