Formulary Manager
The Formulary Manager curates a comprehensive library of cytotoxic, non-cytotoxic, biological, hormonal, fluid, and supportive medications, including approved, research, and trial drugs. It enhances medication safety with visible safety flags and supports chemotherapy, take-home, and supportive prescribing through features like Tallman lettering, incompatibility records, and custom formulary indicators (e.g., subsidised, restricted access, or investigational use). The system enables accurate and safe prescribing using banding tables and configurable rounding rules tailored to patient-specific factors such as weight, age, and body surface area (BSA), supporting both standard and complex treatment protocols.
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Formulary Flexibility
Accommodates both standardised and custom medication entries to support adaptable and institution-specific prescribing.
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Banding & Rounding Rules
Applies standardised dose rounding protocols based on patient characteristics, ensuring accuracy in medication preparation and administration.
Regimen Builder
MAHA's Regimen Builder empowers oncologists to create and manage standardised chemotherapy protocols with precision, safety, and efficiency. It simplifies protocol creation through structured tools that support precision dosing, treatment planning, and monitoring.
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Protocol Design & Customization
Enables clinicians to define drug regimens with flexible dosage and scheduling options, incorporating chemotherapy agents, supportive medications, and monitoring requirements into structured, time-specific plans allowing standardization of protocols across regions, ensuring compliance with ACT-NOW guidelines.
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Order Management & Automation
Includes pre-defined prescription templates to automate regimen creation, reduce errors, and maintain consistency across prescribers and sites.
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Block Feature with Conditional Logic
Enables patient-specific prescriptions based on clinical parameters such as age, weight, or lab values.
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Cycle Planning & Monitoring
Structures chemotherapy delivery into clearly defined phases and repeatable cycles, improving treatment coordination and adherence.
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Diagnostic & Blood Investigations
Integrates essential investigations to support ongoing patient assessment and treatment decisions.
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Workflow Efficiency & Safety Tools
Features such as auto-save, version control, and protocol approval workflows enhance operational efficiency while ensuring data integrity.
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Calendar & Timeline Views
Offers visual tools to improve scheduling, treatment coordination, and communication across the care team.
The Regimen Builder enhances workflow efficiency, reduces variability, and ensures standardised, evidence-based cancer care for better patient outcomes.
Prescribing
The Prescribing module streamlines chemotherapy prescription workflows by ensuring precision, reducing errors, and optimizing chemotherapy treatment for improved patient safety and clinical efficiency.
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Standardised Prescribing & Dosing
Ensuring accurate drug calculations based on clinical guidelines, patient parameters (e.g., weight, height, renal function), and regimen requirements.
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Automated Dose Calculations & Decision Support
Automating dose adjustments with integrated clinical decision support to provide drug interaction checks, allergy alerts, and dose modification recommendations based on lab results and patient history.
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Streamlined Digital Workflow
Reducing administrative burden through paperless digital prescriptions, automated validation, and approval processes—minimizing prescribing errors and manual transcription mistakes.
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Adult and Pediatric Treatments
Supported complex oncology and hematology regimens, allowing for seamless transitions between treatment phases for both adult and pediatric patients.
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Specialised Workflows for Complex Regimens
Implemented tools for the management of complex protocols such as Capizzi Methotrexate that require dose-intensive chemotherapy. Supported a dose-escalation protocol during the Interim Maintenance (IM) phases of ALL treatment, involving the administration of escalating doses of methotrexate based on patient tolerance and hematologic parameters.
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Integration with National Systems
Seamlessly connecting with NZ ePrescribing, Sysmex Eclair, and regional clinical portals to enable real-time data exchange.
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Audit & Compliance Tracking
Maintaining comprehensive prescription records to support regulatory compliance and patient safety standards.
MAHA's Prescribing ensures precision, reduces errors, and optimises chemotherapy treatment for improved patient safety and clinical efficiency.
Pharmacy Module
The Pharmacy Module ensures accurate medication validation, safe dispensing, and efficient coordination between pharmacists and clinical teams. It supports the end-to-end pharmacy workflow from validation, ordering, manufacturing to dispensing and administration.
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Validation
Pharmacists can update validation statuses to trigger medication processing workflows. The multi-step validation process ensures pharmacist oversight at each stage. Medications are automatically categorised into actionable statuses such as 'To Order,' 'To Dispense,' 'To Manufacture,' or 'Not Required' for streamlined handling.
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Compare Rx
The Compare Rx feature allows users to compare two prescriptions or cycles to identify changes or discrepancies.
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Order Management
Supports the complete order lifecycle, including generation, amendments, cancellations, reordering, and validation comparisons, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
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Dose Adjustments & Personalization
Enables individualised care through tools like Split Dose, Split Order, Modify Fluid, and Change Management for tracking dose changes, omissions, and deferrals in patient treatment plans.
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Dispensing & Manufacturing
Facilitates the preparation, issuing, and tracking of prescribed medications while maintaining inventory control and real-time dispensing records.
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Clinical Communication
Pharmacists can add remarks, worklist notes, and administration instructions, improving collaboration and clarity across the care team.
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Safety & Compliance Tracking
Built-in features such as Check & Release, Return to Pharmacy, and Acknowledge ensure medication safety and regulatory compliance. Integrated safety checks at each stage support safe medication administration and audit readiness.
The Pharmacy Module optimises medication workflow, enhances patient safety, and ensures efficient pharmacy operations in chemotherapy treatment.
Administration
The Medication Administration Module ensures accurate, timely and safe administration of chemotherapy medications while maintaining compliance with clinical guidelines.
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Anti-Cancer Drug Patient Assessment Tool
The Administration Module includes an anti-cancer drug patient assessment tool designed to support the evaluation of treatment-related side effects and to facilitate assessments before each treatment session or as clinically required.
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Pre-Treatment Checklist
Ensures all essential protocol-based checks are completed prior to chemotherapy administration. This includes verifying patient consent, confirming completion of mandatory blood tests and investigations, reviewing vital signs and device details.
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Safety Verification Checks
Includes a Timeout Checklist that must be completed before administering flagged medications, and a Double Check Flag requiring verification by a second user prior to administering high-risk medications—ensuring adherence to safety protocols. Additional safety alerts include:
- Force Administration Medications prompting follow up actions.
- Force Infusion End Time Medications: Prompts users to mark infusions as completed after a specified time interval.
- Auto-Complete Infusion Medications: Automatically completes infusions based on the start time and defined administration duration.
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Medication Administration
The system supports a wide range of medication administration types to ensure accurate and safe delivery:
- PRN/STAT, Take-Home, and Supportive Medicines: Handles medications with varying frequencies, including PRN (as needed), STAT (emergency), and take-home prescriptions, along with supportive medicines.
- Fluid Bags & Split Dose Workflows: Supports single or multiple fluid bag selections and split-dose workflows, ensuring the correct infusion volume and administration.
- Time-Critical Administration: Ensures timely administration of critical medications by calculating future administration times to meet precise schedules.
- Intrathecal Medications: Medications administered via the intrathecal route are visually distinguished within the system for enhanced safety and oversight.
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Treatment Scheduling
Allows users to omit medications with clear visual strikethroughs and restore them if needed. Users can defer or bring forward medications or treatment cycles as clinically appropriate, offering flexibility in treatment planning.
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Add Query
Provides a structured way to raise medication-related queries with alerts and notifications.
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Comprehensive Logging
Maintains detailed audit trails and ensures regulatory compliance.
The Medication Administration Module streamlines workflow, enhances patient safety, and ensures precise chemotherapy administration. The Administration Module supports an iOS tablet app that enables drug administration documentation at the bedside, offering agility and the ability to manage multiple patients on the go.
Empowering Patients: The MAHA Patient Portal & App
One of MAHA's core goals is patient empowerment. We're developing a patient portal that will provide continuous access to treatment plans, test results, and medication schedules — giving patients more control and confidence throughout their care journey.
Key Features
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Medication & Appointment Reminders
Timely notifications to help patients stay on track with treatments and visits.
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Secure Messaging
Direct, secure communication with care teams for updates, questions, and reassurance.
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Tailored Educational Resources
Trusted, relevant content to support informed decision-making at every stage.
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Family & Caregiver Access
Enables loved ones to stay informed and offer support through complex care.