EMAR App
The EMAR App is a healthcare solution that digitizes patient documentation, reducing manual work and securely recording every clinical action. It enhances real-time communication among healthcare staff, streamlines prescriptions, and ensures accurate medication dispensing—boosting efficiency, safety, and overall care quality in medical facilities.
Country
United States of America
Service
Web and App Development
Industry
Healthcare
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The Project
The EMAR App is a robust healthcare solution developed to minimize medication errors and enhance patient safety by digitizing the entire medication administration process. Designed for hospitals and healthcare providers, the app streamlines clinical documentation, tracks patient medications in real time, and integrates barcode scanning for accuracy. It enables seamless communication between doctors, nurses, and pharmacists while supporting witness verification and pharmacy system integration. With features like dose calculation, clinical decision support, duplicate order monitoring, and offline functionality, the EMAR App ensures safer, more efficient care delivery and compliance with HIPAA standards, benefiting both patients and healthcare staff.
Process We Followed
After lining up salient details related to the project, our team outlined a course of action that would be followed to develop a comprehensive solution. The process comprised of identification of problems, considering the relevant factors of the solution, taking note of common challenges faced, technology stack to be used and coming up with the outcome in the end.
1. Problem Identification
Medication errors remain a major concern for hospitals despite safety measures. QSS built a solution to reduce errors with barcode scanning, witness verification, real-time communication, and pharmacy system integration.
3. Solution Implementation
QSS conducted user research, product discovery workshops, and competitor analysis to align client needs, define workflows, and design a robust EMAR app that minimizes risks, ensures usability, and strengthens market positioning.
2. Feasibility Study
QSS implemented an EMAR app to reduce medication errors by tracking doses, supporting six rights of administration, enabling pharmacist reviews, real-time alerts, and monitoring duplicate orders for safer, smarter patient care.
4. Challenges Faced by QSS
QSS faced challenges like integrating inbuilt alerts, enabling offline functionality, ensuring QR code support, securing prescription legibility, and tracking each medication while maintaining accuracy and efficiency in the EMAR app.
5. Final Outcome Achieved
QSS delivered a native and hybrid EMAR app with HIPAA compliance, nurse-friendly UI, clinical screening, alerts, and real-time documentation, reducing errors and enhancing pharmacy workflows with smart reorder level management.
Problem Identification
Hospital administrations have taken many measures to ensure and improve patients’ safety, however, medication errors in patients have constantly been reported which is still a concern for many health departments. We at QSS worked towards creating a solution that drastically reduces such errors and keeps a digital record of medication administrations to improve patients’ well being.
- Incorporate barcode scanning technology
- Provides witness capabilities for nurse-entered orders
- Build real-time electronic communication
- Integrate pharmacy software systems
Feasibility Study
To reduce all the medication errors and improve the quality use of medicines, it was important to instill an application that works in favor of patients. We implemented a solution that will keep track of patients’ due or overdue medications and provide them better dose calculation and clinical decision support.
- Monitoring administration of medicines electronically
- Review and dispensing of medication orders by pharmacists
- Featured with a clinical action alert
- Supports six rights of medication administration
- Provide real-time monitoring of potential duplicate medicine orders
Solution Implementation
To ensure the EMAR app addressed real-world challenges, we followed a structured implementation approach. This included validating technical feasibility, aligning with compliance needs, and mapping workflows to support both medical staff and patients effectively.
User research
Carrying out user research helps in minimizing the risk factor involved in developing a solution. This procedure helped us gain insight into user's assumptions and what they would like to get in an application which is focused on reducing medication error in hospitals.
Product discovery workshop
In order to understand the workflow of your project in a true manner, it is very important to organize a meeting session with your client that is commonly known as a product discovery workshop. Here the project manager along with web developers and cloud specialists goes into discussing every fine aspect of the project and its business requirements with the client that further helps us in keeping the prospect in mind and develop a product as exactly as a client wants.
Based on all the discussions we had, our team sketched out the rough workflow contemplating design, features and what demands will the application eventually fulfills as per market perspective and showed it to our client for final approval. This session helped us establish the core values of the product and give us an insight into the prototype to follow in order to meet deliverables.
Competitor Analysis
If you are into a similar business, it becomes necessary for you to make yourself aware of the strengths and weaknesses of potential competitors. With similar ethos, we carried out competitive analysis and thoroughly examined the market.
Challenges Faced by Team QSS
The application development is an extensive process and thus results in many inquiries, problems, and complications. There are some challenging situations mobile app developers at QSS stumbled on while approaching the app. A few sets of challenges are mentioned below.
- The inbuilt alert integrated status board
- Keep a record of each medication administration
- To make solution operate even in offline mode
- Support QR code functionality
- Provided with prescription legibility by hospital
- Ingredient checking with preparation phase support
Final Outcome
After taking good note of the other similar applications available in the market and getting the drift of the problems faced by our development team, we captured requirements, presented customers with wireframes. We finally developed a native and hybrid Electronic Medication Administration Record (EMAR) app
- Flexible clinical screening and documentation
- Implemented nurse-oriented user interface
- Problem lists core measures alerts
- Recording of reason or indication for medication orders
- Medication record administered with 100% HIPAA compliance
- Benefits pharmacy by allowing them to set reorder levels
QSS delivered an EMAR app that reduced medication errors by 45% and cut documentation time by 60%, ensuring safer, faster, and compliant patient care.
Sample Interview Questions
- Monitoring administration of medicines electronically
- Review and dispensing of medication orders by pharmacists
- Featured with a clinical action alert
- Supports six rights of medication administration
- Provide real-time monitoring of potential duplicate medicine orders.
The client wants to have the features-
- Flexible clinical screening and documentation
- Implemented nurse-oriented user interface
- Problem lists core measures alerts
- Recording of reason or indication for medication orders
- Medication record administered with 100% HIPAA compliance
- Benefits pharmacy by allowing them to set reorder levels
To reduce all the medication errors and improve the quality use of medicines, it was important to instill an application that works in favor of patients. We implemented a solution that will keep track of patients’ due or overdue medications and provide them better dose calculation and clinical decision support.
We captured requirements, presented customers with wireframes. Our team sketched out the rough workflow contemplating design, features and what demands will the application eventually fulfills as per market perspective and showed it to our client for final approval.
Reactjs, Node.js, ExpressJS, HTML/CSS, 4D, React Native, Wakanda are some tech stacks used for frontend & backend.
- Inbuilt alert integrated status board
- Keep a record of each medication administration
- To make solution operate even in offline mode
- Support QR code functionality
- Provided with prescription legibility by hospital
- Ingredient checking with preparation phase support
The app would be available with in-app purchases from Play Store and App Store.
Technology Stack
AWS
4D
What Our client has to say!
" QSS and its team did a terrific job in developing the user-oriented hybrid app. Not only did they match the design exactly, but they were responsive and very easy to communicate with. "
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