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I am very interested in understanding how the eMAR Electronic Medication Administration Record system works
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Hello @gerardo_rudas - welcome to the OpenEMR community and its forum! A lot of information is to be found here, and searching for it is not too difficult.
First, though, a question: are you using ‘eMAR’ to refer to an electronic documentation system for recording medication administration, or the more general e-prescription / ‘eRx’ capability?
In this forum, ‘eMAR’ has been mostly used to discuss the medication documentation feature as intended for use in the inpatient versions of OpenEMR, none of which have made it into an official release yet-- although I think I’ve heard that a few 3d party forks do have the feature. You can search the forum on ‘eMAR’ (see below) to read previous postings on the topic.
As far as ‘eRx’ is concerned, OpenEMR is compatible with two different systems, weno and NewCrop eRx. Their benefits and requirements are very different.
As it happens I am an employee of the only vendor who suppports NewCrop eRx for OpenEMR . If you’d like to DM me for costs and prices I’d be happy to do that outside of this forum. In general, OpenEMR connects to NewCrop through a data interface and displays the eRx content on a dedicated screen delivered straight from NewCrop.
It’s a fairly old page and as I mentioned, weno and NewCrop are now the only eRx options these days. And sadly, NewCrop has taken their eRx videos offline so the link to them is dead. If you’d like to arrange a no-cost demo of our eRx service, I’d be happy to do that.
Earlier I mentioned searching the forum. Here’s a picture of a search for more info on weno. You should be able to locate the current contact person who can give you more information. To search for ‘eMAR’ would be the same except for the search term:
Hope that was helpful; feel free to come back to ask more specific questions.
Best- Harley
OpenEMR does not have an eMAR as you would see in an in-patient setting such as a hospital. We’ve had proposals to build it out, but as far as I know it doesn’t exist in the public version.
I appreciate your answers and the material you shared with me htuck I am already reading it, my interest is more associated with how it would work to send a prescription from an eMAR or eRx module to an intelligent infusion pump “the concept of autoprogramming” in this way the doctor looks for the drug, this library has all the infusion data of the same, and sends this prescription through a software that manages the pumps and is responsible for carrying this record to a particular pump where a patient is connected.
Hello @gerardo_rudas That really is a different sort of thing than eMAR or eRx. It is more an issue of software interfaces between the infusion pump hardware and OpenEMR.
Searching the forum for ‘Hardware interface’ I see it’s only been asked about a few times in the past several years. The main problem appears to be that the medical devices are proprietary so an interface with them would involve licensing issues.
You might try that search yourself and read the details of what the posts discuss, it might be useful.
