Project - Support MAR

[gpp5519 (Gayatri Prakash Patil)]

Hello @arnabnaha sir

I would like to know if there is any standard procedure and format of MAR followed through out. Also, are MAR sheets( (also referred as drug sheets) and the MAR Report different things, as there are various sources online describing different things? Would you please share any references which are followed by medical professionals for the same?

Thanks,
Gayatri

[David_Olaboye]

Hello @arnabnaha,

Thanks for the concern, I’m a Student from Nigeria and I hope to participate in the 2020 GSoC program. I love to know if you’re open on the openemr slack app.

Thank you.

[robert.down (Robert Down, RN)]

Hi @gpp5519,

We are putting together an info packet on some of the details of a MAR to answer a lot of common questions. I’ll post a link once it’s ready

[gpp5519 (Gayatri Prakash Patil)]

Thank you @robert.down

[RachelEllison]

Here’s a link to a post on a different GSOC project about tracking of patient medication adherence at home. Maybe you could consider adding a separate MAR for drugs taken at home. I’d recommend keeping it separate due to lower confidence/data integrity, people could just put tic tacs in their pill bottle and probably pull a fast one on the clinician observer.

Project - OpenEMR Android app

Feature request for patient side version of an android app that I think dovetails nicely with the MAR(Medication Administration Record) GSOC Project. Medical/noncompliance and Medical nonadherence are a significant contributor to poor health outcomes and otherwise unnecessary healthcare spending. This can occur for a variety of reasons. Inaffordability of medications, difficulty of access, stopping medication when you start feeling better (e.g antibiotics and antidepressants), unpleasant side…

[hsync (Harshit Sharma)]

I want to contribute to ‘Support MAR’ for GSOC 20 application. But this seems way too complicated.

[RachelEllison]

Hi Harshit, it’s totally okay to feel confused. OpenEMR is a large codebase and it’s easy to get overwhelmed in starting to develop code to integrate within it.

I’d recommend getting your development environment set up and just start with making a few test pages.

[adad20 (Aditya Tomar)]

May I know more about the integration part of MAR like where are we going to integrate it in OpenEMR codebase?

[stephenwaite]

@robert.down

Hi, it would be a core subsystem but written as a module.

hi @adad20, here’s how Robert envisions

[Bryan_Jarabek]

@robert.down or @brady.miller Did anyone ever figure out how to build a MAR module for open EMR that would allow nurses to see medications that were due, chart the medications being given and have the medications used dime off of the pharmacy dispense inventory?

[juggernautsei (Sherwin Gaddis)]

@Bryan_Jarabek that project never got off the ground from what I can find. I was one of the people that brought up this topic years ago. Projects · openemr/openemr · GitHub You can look at the list and see MAR as one of the projects with a detailed layout of what needs to be done. But no one (not even me) has taken action on this project. Are you a coder/developer?