LinkHMS now covers reliable medication management tools to strengthen one of the most critical responsibilities in clinical care. The drug administration chart focuses on documenting and monitoring all medications administered to a patient. It fully integrates with prescriptions across inpatient and outpatient care to provide your clinicians with real-time visibility into all medication activity. Let’s find out how simple medication management can be with LinkHMS.
It‘s easier than your clinic might expect. It starts the moment the doctor marks a medication for inpatient administration during the prescribing process. We haven’t changed the prescription process; instead, we’ve enhanced it by adding new capabilities. The LinkHMS system automatically imports prescriptions into the drug administration chart and provides a ready-to-use workflow for doctors and nurses to begin tracking and logging doses immediately.
Open the drug administration chart
You can locate the chart in the patient’s EMR, visits, or admissions, now added as a new sub-tab under the prescriptions. It helps your clinic centralize all medication activities in a single, real-time view. Whether a patient is receiving scheduled intravenous therapy or a one-time pain reliever, every medication can be administered with the included functionality of LinkHMS.
Locate the required medication
The drug administration chart helps cover everything related to medication history. It is easy to navigate using the medicine search bar and status filters to quickly access the relevant records. To improve usability, LinkHMS automatically generates medication cards for new prescriptions, schedules the administration period, and tracks all associated dosing activity. Additionally, it has a separate log for non-prescribed medications to record one-off or symptom-driven doses for accurate record-keeping and oversight.
Log the prescribed or non-prescribed medication dose
When it’s time to record a medication event, the nurse or doctor simply uses the log dose button on the relevant card. Whether the dose is from a formal prescription or a non-prescribed need, it takes a few clicks to log the medication and assign the appropriate status (administered or not administered). The dose appears instantly in the drug administration chart, with the user who logged it, timestamp, dosage, status, and any accompanying notes. Additionally, the medication card indicates the number of administrations completed relative to the day’s expected total (e.g., 2 out of 3).
Exclude medications when needed
It sometimes happens that treatment plans may change, or certain medications are logged incorrectly or no longer required. Therefore, LinkHMS also provides controlled exclusion functionality to adjust medication data without losing visibility. Based on role permissions, doctors can exclude entire prescriptions or individual dose records, while nurses can exclude only individual dose entries. Excluded items are highlighted in red and automatically removed from daily dose calculations, so medication progress always remains accurate.
Review administration records
Reviewing records can be both thorough and quick, with easy access to each medication card. Doctors and nurses can view any record in full, while past or excluded dose entries are displayed in read-only mode to preserve data integrity. Assigned statuses and color-coding help you scan daily activity, identify flagged entries, and understand overall progress. Additionally, you can follow progress not only day-to-day but also across the entire prescription period, with a calendar-style view that supports multiple dates in the full medication chart.
Interpret medication statuses and color coding
LinkHMS turns medication tracking into an instantly readable experience through smart statuses and intuitive color coding. As soon as doses are logged with the relevant status, the medication card status also updates in real time based on prescription rules and recorded activity. You can easily distinguish statuses (In Progress, Completed, Flagged, and Excluded), each colored with a specific color. The same color-coding is used across all medication records to quickly identify delays or issues that need clinicians’ attention.
Medication management doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. LinkHMS provides your clinic personnel with a practical, easy-to-use chart that keeps medication records complete, up to date, and accessible at all times. Whether working at a workstation or on a mobile device, doctors and nurses can respond quickly to changes and ensure every dose is administered correctly.
