• On this wireframe, the home medication of the local EHR is visible. 

• It is visible that the system is syncing with Vitalink (upper right corner).
  • This is done automatically, without interference of the healthcare professional.
  • It is important that the automatic sync starts when opening the EHR of the patient (and not only when opening the medication module of the EHR).
  • The healthcare professional should be aware that the system is syncing with Vitalink. Therefore it is recommended to use an icon and/or textual label expressing what the system is doing.
  • The sync can only be done with Vitalink if IC & TR are OK.

• While syncing, the healthcare professional can do all actions in the medication module of the hospital software (add new medication, re-prescribe, transfer to admission medication, ...).

• It is possible to validate the active medication list of the local EHR; but preferably this is only done when the Vitalink data are synced with the medication data of the local EHR. 

• The automatic import and analysis of the information from the Vitalink medication scheme should take a minimum of time. Preferably 4 to 6 seconds or less; with a maximum of 10 seconds.

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in an hospital (only the hospital will be visible). 

• When the sync with Vitalink isn't possible, it should be indicated that the sync couldn't be done successfully (status information). 
  • When doing a mouse over, more information about the failure should be provided via a tooltip. 
  • It should be possible to initiate a new sync with Vitalink. 

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• When there isn't a Vitalink medication scheme for the patient, this should be indicated.

  • It should be possible to create a Vitalink medication scheme for the patient via 1 click.

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    When checking the check box in the example below, the medication list that it validated by the healthcare professional will be uploaded to Vitalink at the end of the contact.
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• Since healthcare professionals are always validating the active medication when checking this with the patient, it will work the same in the combined overview: they will have to validate and in the same time, the information will be uploaded to Vitalink. 
  • By default all medication lines would be selected (check boxes will be checked).
  • When the sync with Vitalink is not yet done, and when the healthcare professional would like to validate already, it is possible to validate & continue. This means that no update to Vitalink is send for this patient.
  • But normally this shouldn't be this case since the sync & analysis of the combined overview should be done in 4 to 6 seconds or less; with a maximum of 10 seconds.

• When there isn't a Vitalink medication scheme for the patient, this is indicated via status information. 
  • Next, the healthcare professional can validate and create a Vitalink medication scheme at the same time.
  • It should be set by default that if there not no Vitalink medication scheme, a new one will be created when validating the medication. 
  • The healthcare professional can uncheck this option and can continue with only internal validating the active medication. 

• Here, it is visible that a new medication line was added on Vitalink. 
  • This medication line is visualized in a combined overview with the medication of the local EHR.
  • This new medication line is highlighted to indicate that this is data coming from outside the EHR.
  • This new medication line receives an icon, indicating the source.
  • This new medication line receives a label (new), indicating if it concerns a new added medication, a change of an existing medication line, a stop of an existing medication line.

• In this example, it is visible that one medication line has been changed on Vitalink. One medication line has been stopped.
  • These medication lines are visualized in a combined overview with the medication of the local EHR.

• For the changed medication:
  • This new medication line is highlighted to indicate that this is data coming from outside the EHR.
  • This medication line is visualized closely together with the related medication line(s) that already existed in the local EHR.
    • This can be done based on the unique URI that each medication line has. 
    • This can be done based on the product name, substance name, ...
    • By doing so, it is easier for the healthcare professional to analyse and decide on the medication lines.
  • This new medication line receives an icon, indicating the source.
  • This new medication line receives a label (change), indicating if it concerns a new added medication, a change of an existing medication line, a stop of an existing medication line.
  • The medication line that is changed becomes 'strike through'.

• It is highly recommended to not use too many colour indications for highlighting data coming outside the EHR.
  • Therefore, only one colour is used to indicated new medication & changed medication lines.
  • Another colour is used for highlighting stopped medication lines.

8. Within the medication scheme, it should be possible to reactivate stopped/changed medication in a fast way (e.g. via drop down menu per medication line; see below).

9. Within the medication scheme, it should be possible to check the history of this medication line (e.g. via drop down menu per medication line; see below).