Trusted by NHS organisations, healthcare providers, and healthtech innovators, 6B delivers full-lifecycle Better Meds integration, from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We build secure, scalable integrations for medication safety alerts, pharmacy workflows, medicines reconciliation, clinical monitoring, prescribing analytics, and patient engagement.
Our team combines medicines management knowledge with expertise in healthcare APIs, HL7 FHIR, HL7 messaging, openEHR, dm+d terminology, event-driven integration, identity management, and clinical safety. We support established medication workflows while protecting data integrity, maintaining auditability, and enabling safe clinical decisions.
Understanding Better Meds
Better Meds is an electronic prescribing and medicines administration platform designed to support digital medication management across hospital and healthcare environments.
The platform supports prescribing, medicines reconciliation, pharmacy review, medication administration, and clinical decision support. It provides clinicians with structured medication information throughout the patient journey.
Better Meds forms part of Better’s wider digital health ecosystem and can exchange data with EPRs, pharmacy systems, clinical applications, and other healthcare platforms using standards-based interoperability approaches.
The platform also supports mobile medication workflows, enabling clinicians to access prescribing and administration information closer to the point of care.
Our Better Meds Integration Process
We begin with structured discovery involving pharmacy, medical, nursing, digital, technical, and governance stakeholders. Together, we define workflows, users, data requirements, safety constraints, and intended outcomes.
Typical integrations include active medication records, allergy information, medicines reconciliation, pharmacy systems, laboratory and observation data, clinical alerts, administration tools, and prescribing analytics.
We map patient identifiers, encounters, allergies, medication orders, dose instructions, routes, frequencies, administrations, omissions, discontinuations, pharmacy reviews, dispensing events, and discharge medicines.
Architecture may use FHIR, REST APIs, HL7 messages, openEHR, integration engines, secure web services, database interfaces, or event-driven messaging. We also define mappings for dm+d, local medication catalogues, formularies, dose units, routes, frequencies, medication statuses, and administration outcomes.
Authentication can support OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, single sign-on, service accounts, and role-based access.
Reusable components accelerate delivery, including medication handlers, FHIR components, HL7 parsers, validation rules, transformations, and routing pipelines. Secure testing validates patient matching, medication coding, dose instructions, permissions, sequencing, performance, audit trails, failure recovery, and downtime reconciliation.
Before launch, we coordinate acceptance testing, clinical safety review, deployment, and documentation. After go-live, we monitor integrations, resolve issues, and maintain compatibility with Better Meds and NHS changes.
Benefits of Better Meds Integration
Prescribers gain connected access to allergies, medicines, clinical information, and decision support at the point of prescribing.
Pharmacists benefit from timely prescription information, reduced rekeying, improved status visibility, and more efficient clinical review and medicines optimisation.
Nurses gain accurate medication schedules, dose instructions, administration records, and omission information. Mobile workflows can also support access to medication information closer to the point of care.
Patients benefit from safer, more coordinated medicines management and improved continuity when moving between services.
Operational teams gain visibility of prescribing, administrations, omitted doses, pharmacy activity, medicine usage, and medication-related workload.
For healthtech vendors, Better Meds integration provides reusable, standards-based access to established digital medication workflows.
Why Choose 6B for Better Meds Integration?
6B designs around the complete medication lifecycle, keeping information accurate, traceable, and clinically meaningful from reconciliation through discharge.
Our specialists understand HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, openEHR, APIs, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, integration engines, secure web services, and event-driven messaging.
We manage complex medicines terminology, including dm+d, formularies, dose units, routes, frequencies, medication statuses, allergies, and system mappings.
Reusable medication handlers, authentication flows, transformation frameworks, validation tools, connectors, and monitoring components accelerate delivery without compromising quality.
Security, governance, and clinical safety are embedded through encryption, role-based access, audit logging, data minimisation, retention controls, and sensitive-information safeguards.
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Readiness checklist for Better Meds Integration
- Define the medicines workflows and use cases your integration will support, such as prescribing, administration, medicines reconciliation, pharmacy review, discharge, or analytics.
- Identify the Better Meds, EPR, PAS, pharmacy, laboratory, observations, and third-party systems involved in each workflow.
- Confirm which APIs, FHIR resources, HL7 messages, openEHR interfaces, integration-engine connections, database interfaces, or secure transfer methods are available within the
- target deployment.
- Map patient identifiers, encounters, allergies, medication orders, dose instructions, administrations, omissions, discontinuations, pharmacy reviews, dispensing events, and discharge
- medicines across connected systems.
- Confirm how dm+d identifiers, local medication catalogues, formularies, routes, dose units, frequencies, and medication statuses will be mapped and validated.
- Prepare governance and clinical safety documentation, including your lawful basis, DPIA, DSPT position, and applicable DCB0129 or DCB0160 responsibilities.
Speak To Our Better Meds Integration Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital health product or extending an existing solution with Better Meds integration, 6B brings the technical expertise, healthcare insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
