Prescriptions and medications

Resthome manages a resident’s medication end to end: from prescription to administration, including stock and safety checks (allergies, interactions).

The medication catalogue

Available medications are grouped in a catalogue (linked to the Belgian SAM database). It lists the name, the form and the dosage. It is the source of prescriptions.

Prescribing

  1. From the resident’s record (Care application), create a prescription.

  2. Choose the medication, the dosage and the period.

  3. Save.

A prescription follows its life cycle with clear actions:

  • Suspend — temporarily interrupt (e.g. before an examination).

  • Resume — restart a suspended prescription.

  • End — close at the end of the treatment.

  • Cancel — remove a prescription entered by mistake.

Active prescriptions list: resident, medication, dosage, frequency, route, dates, status and the interactions indicator

Safety: allergies and interactions

Resthome knows the resident’s allergies and the known drug interactions. It warns you if a prescription poses a risk — a safeguard before administration.

Administering

Administrations stem from prescriptions: the caregiver records what was given, when and by whom. Traceability is complete.

Administrations of the day: resident, medication, dose given, who administered it, and the Administered or Omitted status

Hospitalisation: suspend, then resume

When a resident goes to hospital, their prescriptions must not stay active — the hospital takes over. Resthome does it in one step.

  1. From the resident’s record, open the hospitalisation action.

  2. Choose Hospitalise, and enter the date and the reason.

  3. Confirm: every active prescription is suspended, each one carrying the date and the reason.

On the way back, the same action in Return mode resumes the prescriptions that had been suspended for this hospitalisation.

The liaison pack

Before the resident leaves, print the liaison pack: the document the hospital asks for on admission. It gathers what the ward needs — identity, treatments, allergies, dependency, and the hospitalisation preferences recorded in the anamnesis.

One click, at the right moment

The pack is printed from the hospitalisation window itself, so it is produced while the transfer is being recorded — not looked for afterwards.

Lots and stock

The medication lots and the stock withdrawals let you track the available quantities and consumption, with lot numbers for traceability.

Useful configuration

  • Pathologies (ICD-10) — the resident’s history and diagnoses.

  • Allergens — known allergies.

  • Drug interactions — vigilance rules.

  • SAM database — reference catalogue of Belgian medications.

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