Digital care record provider says it will develop its eMar tech with providers, but will continue to support those with existing third-party integrations.
Care record tech provider Nourish is set to launch an electronic medication administration record (eMar) to its systems used by care homes later this year, it has announced.
The launch will follow a period of development in collaboration with care homes and home care providers over the next few months, the company said in a recent statement.
It added the launch will not cause ‘disruption’ to its care home customers already using other eMar provider software, and it will continue to ‘support third-party medication management tools alongside the platform’.
Four in five care providers have now replaced paper records with digital social care records (DSCRs) for care management, according to a government announcement last December, which it said “are an essential part of its ambition to develop a single patient record as part of the 10 Year Health Plan.
According to the Care Quality Commission, eMar systems generally include information about the person receiving the medication, any support they might need to take it, personalised care plans and notes, management reports and integrated ordering systems to manage medicine stocks.
Nourish Care chief product officer Matthew Stewart said “the case for bringing eMar into Nourish is clear” following “listening to providers on this for some time”.
