CGI

Better Meds e-Prescribing and Medicines Administration

Better Meds is an intuitive and comprehensive ePrescribing and Medicines Administration application which combines an NHS approved OpenEHR application with an agile Open Standards Data Model, to automate medicines management and enhance patient safety using advanced clinical decision support enabling Trusts to deal with the most complex prescribing regimes.

Features

  • ePrescribing and Medicines Administration (all routes)
  • Modern and mobile user interface
  • Medicines Management
  • Pharmacist review functionality
  • Documentation and reconciliation of medicines on admission
  • Electronic Discharge prescription (TTAs)
  • Medicines reconciliation at each stage of the admission/discharge process
  • Short-term leave prescribing with auto-suspension of drug chart
  • Set review date for medicines such as IV antibiotics
  • Mental Health work flow capability

Benefits

  • Reduction in prescribing and transcription errors
  • Reduction in medicines administration errors and omitted doses
  • Improved patient safety due to legibility and clinical decision support
  • Enables pharmacists to efficiently manage their workload and monitor performance
  • Cost and efficiency savings
  • Quality improvement
  • Advances digital maturity
  • Enables the move to paperless
  • Open Standard API for integration

Pricing

£196,800 a licence a year

  • Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

7 4 3 3 5 3 8 7 2 7 9 4 3 7 5

Contact

CGI CCS Frameworks Team
Telephone: 08450707765
Email: uk.gen.ccsframeworks@cgi.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
Service constraints
There are no constraints on the use of this service.
System requirements
  • Core i5 CPU (latest generation)
  • 8GB RAM
  • 250GB hard drive. (We recommend SSD for optimum performance)
  • The monitor resolution minimum 1280x1240 pixels, but 1920x1080 is recommended
  • No minimum requirements regarding mouse, keyboard, or printer
  • Edge, Chrome (Last 2 stable versions), Safari are supported

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
One hour response time
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
Yes, at an extra cost
Web chat support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support accessibility standard
None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible
The system is based on Avaya Automated Chat 2.0 (formerly Conversive). Details on accessibility can be found at: https://www.avaya.com/en/documents/vpat---avaya-automated-chat-desk-20-2013-08-19.pdf
Web chat accessibility testing
Testing would have been performed by Avaya the product vendor
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
• Priority 1 Critical Fault:-
(Problem affecting an entire service, a large number of End Users): One hour Response Time, Four hours Resolution Time
• Priority 2 Serious Fault:-
(System or data problems affecting a large number of end users): One hour Response Time, Two days Resolution Time
• Priority 3 Standard Fault:-
(The system is operating in a degraded way, but which does not have a significant adverse effect on operations.): One hour Response Time, Seven days Resolution Time
• Priority 4 Cosmetics Fault or Request for information:-
(A minor agreed problem exists in the system, which has no significant effect on operations.
An end user has chosen to execute a transaction in a manner not recommended.
Request for information or advice or agreed service requests.
Other calls not related to a fault. ): One hour Response Time, 30 days Resolution Time.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Training and floor-walking.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Via the offboarding service (using AQL queries/REST APIs).
End-of-contract process
Off-boarding is instigated by a client request or after expiration of the service agreement. Deletion of any virtual machine image and data will occur in line with the service agreement. Any required data will be made available using appropriate media, in line with the data security classification. After client notification that data has been successfully recovered, CGI will purge and destroy client data from any compute or storage device or media that remains part of CGI's estate.
CGI will deliver a smooth and secure off boarding process at the termination of the service. This will include: the decommissioning of relevant accounts; the extraction of data held on the system in agreed formats for on boarding into any new service; the decommissioning of any interfaces or integration points with third party or local systems; the engagement with any new service providers to ensure a smooth transition.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
The service has been designed with a responsive UI which enables the mobile and desktop services to be the same.
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Read/Update data via REST APIs
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Local configuration of medicines data and also user roles & features.

Scaling

Independence of resources
This is an optional service. We will jointly with the Customer define a number of agreed synthetic transactions, these will be run on an agreed frequency and the performance measured. After an agreed period during which these transaction are benchmarked we will report performance against the agreed performance timing as part of the monthly service report.
Costs for this service will be provided on a case by case basis, based on the number of transactions and the frequency required.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Agreed KPIs
Reporting types
Regular reports

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Better.Care

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Physical and procedural controls
Data sanitisation process
No
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
AQL queries/REST APIs.
Data export formats
Other
Other data export formats
  • XML
  • OPT
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
XML

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Data protection within supplier network
IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
For Application availability we offer a sliding scale over the monthly performance. Our target is 98% with a threshold of 95%. Infrastructure downtime or other incidents within Force Majeur, planned or unplanned, is excluded from this calculation.
Approach to resilience
Resilience provided by underlying hosting platform. This is dependent of the customers hosting requirements and choices
Outage reporting
Monitoring by service team

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Application level role-based access control
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
User-defined
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
Intertek Certification Limited
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
07/04/2021
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
There are no exclusions.
The following IS covered from a Technical perspective: Provision of outsourcing sevices including managed infrastructure services, contact centre services, service desk services, management of print and email, application development, maintenance and support services.
The following IS covered from a Business perspective: The provision of outsourcing, project and consultancy services, including development and delivery activities, plus the management of people, technologies and physical security.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
Level 2 or above for the HSCIC Information Governance Toolkit

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
Other security governance standards
ISO9001 Quality Management
TickITplus ISO9001
ISO14001 Environmental Management
ISO27001 Information Security Management
CLEF - ISO/IEC 17025:2005
Information security policies and processes
Our group-wide Enterprise Security Management Framework (ESMF) contains protection policies covering information security, privacy, physical security, and intellectual property among others. Specifically for the UK there is the CGI UK SBU Data Protection Directive.
Inspired by industry's best practices, ESMF is designed to adapt and to address security needs and, effectively support CGI and is based on two fundamental elements, a risk-based methodology and a business-focused approach that allows security and business continuity to be managed and aligned with CGI’s risk tolerance while fostering a risk sensitive culture.
The framework sets the security baseline to protect CGI and client operations whilst allowing continuous improvement for security program evolution. It establishes an efficient governance security model, clear and formal security processes and a complete set of policies supported by standards to manage security and business continuity effectively.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach
Our Change services are aligned to ITIL. We use a standard toolset aligned to ITIL, OneITSM, which supports Change using incident; problem; release; knowledge and asset & configuration management functionality. We integrated this with other tools, such as #define (our production system for Applications Development), OWL (our Knowledge Management repository), BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), PrimePortal (Service Knowledge Management System) and CustomerFirst (our User facing portals) to provide the appropriate functions for supporting Change.
Our Change approach incorporates categorisation and prioritisation ensuring we meet important targets and priorities and ultimately SLAs.
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
Vulnerability management. Occasionally, vulnerabilities will be discovered which, if left unmitigated, will pose an unacceptable risk to the service. Robust vulnerability management processes are in place within Microsoft Azure to identify, triage, and mitigate vulnerabilities.
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Protective monitoring approach will vary based on the customer's hosting requirements and choices.
CGI provide Pro-active system monitoring via BMC Patrol linked to our control bridge in South Wales. This helps ensure the effectiveness of the controls that are adopted and to verify conformity.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
CGI’s incident management solution is aligned to ITIL. It aims to restore normal service level-defined operations as quickly as possible with minimum disruption to our clients’ business, ensuring that the best possible levels of service quality and availability are maintained. Our dedicated procedures, tools, roles and responsibilities for operational groups, client and 3rd party vendors enable effective management, coordination, resolution and recovery of incidents of all levels.
The process encompasses the following: Detection and recording, Classification and initial support, Investigation and diagnosis, Resolution and recovery and Tracking and communication.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

CGI is passionate about protecting the environment. This is evidenced by our UK corporate policy, backed by Science Based Targets (SBTs), to be Net Zero by 2026 and to be operationally Carbon Neutral by the end of 2022.

Equally important is our approach to responsible operations, ensuring we meet or exceed legal obligations for good governance and participate in important voluntary measures such as the UN Global Compact and Sustainable Development Goals.

We are committed to protecting the environment through mindful stewardship and responsible operating practices, as well as delivering a robust set of environmental and energy solutions for our clients.
Highlights of our commitment include, but are not limited to:

- As part of our global commitment to be net-zero by 2030, CGI in the UK has also committed to set science-based emissions reduction targets through the Science Based Targets initiative aligned with climate science and is a signatory of the Race to Zero

- CGI’s appointment of a dedicated UK programme manager to deliver against our Net Zero targets.

- Extension of our climate change commitment into our supply chain such that 50% of our suppliers, by spend, will have set their own SBTs to reduce their climate impact by 2026.

- CGI’s ‘No Planet B’ initiative - Engaging with our members, clients, suppliers and communities, to identify and deliver additional benefits including tree planting and canal restoration projects.

As and when we engage in the call-off for our e-prescribing (ePMA) solution service, we will ensure that we remain aligned to our approach to fighting climate change, supported by our solutions goal of replacing paper-based prescribing and hand-written notes/prescription details within the clinical setting. The reduction of paper footprint from within the hospital will support both CGI and the trusts sustainability agenda.

Pricing

Price
£196,800 a licence a year
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Access to a demonstration portal can be provided for an agreed limited period of time

Service documents

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