# Meds Review Overview

The Meds Review plug-in provides a comprehensive view of your patients' medications over a continuum that includes the medications' individual states over time. The view provides current and historical information, displaying data in both text and graphical formats. With its context-specific information about individual medications and conveniently placed action links, this view provides tools that help you manage as well as view medications.

The plug-in groups medications by category: clinic, inpatient, outpatient, non-VA, and supplies. Within these groups, it sorts medications by status (its default behavior), with pending medications listed first, then active, expired, and finally discontinued medications. As the preceding screen capture suggests, the Meds Review plug-in displays a number on the right side of each category to let you know without opening the category how many items lie within.

- To open a category, simpliy click on it.

### View Outpatient Medications

When you click a category, Meds Review displays a summary view of the medications within it. Each medication's summary includes a graphical representation of its status and other metrics over time, its last-filled and expiration dates, and much more. To view further details in addition to this summary information, click the medication.

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### View Inpatient Medications

Like the summary view for outpatient medications, the summary view for inpatient medications provides a graph and salient at-a-glance details—such last-administered time, scheduled administration times, dosage, and more. Also like outpatient medications' summary views, you can click inpatient medications' summaries to display detailed information.

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### Sort Medications

The Meds Review plug-in gives you two ways to sort medications: alphabetically and by status (which is the plug-in's default sorting scheme).

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### Filter Medications

You can also filter medications: choose to view either recent medications or all medications.

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### View Other Types of Medications

The plug-in also displays summary and detailed information for non-VA and clinic medications, and for supplies.

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## Clinical Practice Environment

With its CPE (Clinical Practice Environment) application, the HMP Team Facing framework delivers software that serves healthcare teams and helps meet their needs in caring for our veterans. CPE software will help transition Veterans Health Administration from a chart-centric model of care to a team-based, patient-centered model of care through advanced clinical software and a modern software architecture. This software represents an effort to reestablish close clinician-IT collaborative relationships and to build field-driven, web-based modules that meet the following functional and technology goals.

- Functional Goals:
  - Comprehensive, coded, integrated data
  - Knowledge-driven, context-based decision support
  - Role- and conditions-based workflow-driven systems
  - Multi-patient, team-based care
- Technology Goals:
  - Open source, with a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  - Web-based, with a flexible, scalable architecture
  - Context-aware, with an extensible, modular platform

While its initial operating capabilities are present, HMP software is a work-in-progress. Specific features and instructions for using them will evolve as our partners in the clinical community evaluate the software and provide feedback, thus realizing the close collaboration between IT and clinical interests that informed this software's genesis.