Avatar eMAR improves safety by minimizing transaction errors and automating processes.

Avatar Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) provides nurses and other authorized staff with an efficient online process for charting medication administration.

Avatar eMAR is designed to replace the traditional paper MAR, and is integrated with Avatar Order Entry (a CPOE application) for inpatient environments, and with InfoScriber, Netsmart’s leading Web-based e-prescribing application. Medication orders recorded through either of these applications automatically appear within the Avatar eMAR.

Authorized staff using Avatar eMAR can switch from patient to patient within Avatar eMAR’s main menu. To assure patient confidentiality and safety, Avatar eMAR provides multiple patient identifiers -- ID number, Medical Record Number, patient name, gender, date of birth, and photograph -- to help verify the identity of each patient. This facilitates compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals as provided by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

Business Benefits
Avatar eMAR helps agencies enhance quality of care and increase medication management efficiency

• Improves safety by minimizing transcription errors and eliminating illegible writing
• Provides a portable medication profile
• Maintains MAR documentation while doses are administered
• Improves the timeliness of patient order information
• Features secure and auditable record keeping

Intuitive User Interface
Avatar eMAR’s user interface is a grid-like design that mimics traditional paper MARs. For any eligible order, users can record administration events simply by clicking in the appropriate cell in the grid. Once an administration event has been recorded, its details can be displayed, and results specific to that administration event can be recorded.

Reporting
Avatar eMAR delivers a variety of easy to use reports for missed medications, review of administration times, nurse-selected parameters for patient lists, and custom reports designed by the client. The system tracks actual errors and near misses, the identity of the user, and is able to print these reports at pre-scheduled times or on demand. Avatar eMAR is integrated with Netsmart’s Avatar Order Entry and InfoScriber e-Prescribing systems.

Training and Support
Netsmart provides management consulting services and training initiatives to assist in the transformation process of a traditionally paper-based process to clinical automation.

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