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AMS

What does the Acute Medication Service (AMS) cover?

The acute medication service covers the provision of pharmaceutical care services for acute episodes of care and supports the dispensing of acute prescriptions and any associated counselling and advice.

Previously, when patients were prescribed items for acute symptoms they were given a GP10 prescription form/s to take to a pharmacy for dispensing. Under ePharmacy AMS, there is no significant change in the GP process, but upon printing the GP10, the GP system also sends an electronic prescribing message to the central ePharmacy message store and prints a unique reference number (UPN) on the prescription in the form of a bar code.

Patients then take the prescription to the pharmacy of their choice for dispensing where the pharmacy uses their PMR system to scan the bar code. The PMR system pulls down the electronic message and the pharmacist uses the information displayed to amend the patient medication record, clinically check the prescription and label the medication.

Do Cegedim Rx products provide this functionality?

Cegedim Rx was the first PMR supplier to provide AMS functionality. Pharmacy Manager and Nexphase provide fully operational functionality for AMS.

Cegedim Rx worked with a number of clients during the development phase of the AMS solution and clients have identified a number of benefits:

  • Faster dispensing times (due to less typing).
  • Increased prescription accuracy (due to fewer keying errors).
  • Expected increase in repeat prescription business over time.

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