Hospital Medicines Management System(HMMS)
The Health Service Executive has embarked on implementing a new national Hospital Medicines Management System (HMMS) across acute hospital and Community Healthcare Organisation pharmacy departments in Ireland. HMMS will provide modern medicines management software enabling hospital pharmacies to effectively manage medication inventories, ward medication supply, patient specific supply, and associated procurement processes. The HMMS vendor was contracted by the HSE after a detailed procurement process. The project contract was signed in Q2 2022 and is being rolled out on a phased basis across the country.
Some key features offered by HMMS include comprehensive stock control, order processing, label printing, reporting, and integration with dispensary robots and automated dispensing cabinets. HMMS interfaces with several other HSE systems; Hospital Finance systems including IFMS, hospital Patient Administration Systems enabling single data entry and seamless data-flows between Pharmacy, Finance, and other hospital information systems.
By leveraging global medication data standards, HMMS will enhance patient safety through standardised datasets, catalogues, and semantic interoperability. It will also support ePrescribing and eDischarge to create a modern, efficient medicines management ecosystem in Irish public hospitals.
The first hospital to go-live with the new system was Galway University Hospital in May 2023. Upcoming implementation sites over the next few months include Rotunda Hospital Dublin, St Vincent's University Hospital Dublin, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, CHO9 Phoenix Pharmacy Dublin, and South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork.
The HMMS project team is working closely with each hospital to plan the phased roll-out and ensure a smooth transition to the new HMMS platform. Once fully adopted nationally, the system is expected to deliver significant benefits in patient safety, workforce productivity, inventory optimisation, and prescribing accuracy.
If you would like to learn more about the Hospital Medicines Management System (HMMS), please contact HMMS.contact@hse.ie.