April 2026 Update: MAR Overhaul, Weight-Based Dosing, and Smarter Workflows
A redesigned Medication Administration Record, weight-based dosing support, and streamlined administration workflows make HealthCareSim's medication experience more realistic than ever.
April brings a big round of updates focused on the medication experience. The Medication Administration Record has been overhauled, weight-based dosing is now fully supported, and several workflow improvements make medication administration faster and more intuitive for students.
Medication Administration Record
The MAR now supports time-based scrolling, letting students move backward and forward through the medication timeline the same way they can in flowsheets. Medication time slots are color-coded to give an at-a-glance picture of what has been given, held, or is still due. Tooltips on administration cards show recorded documentation details without requiring extra clicks.
These changes bring the MAR much closer to what students will encounter in a production EHR, reinforcing the habits they’ll need on the floor.
Drug Reference Integration
Instructors can now configure a drug reference URL at the institutional level, pointing to whatever resource their program prefers. Once configured, students see a link next to each medication name on the MAR that takes them directly to the relevant drug information. This keeps the reference lookup inside the clinical workflow rather than requiring students to leave the EHR and search separately.
Weight-Based Dosing
HealthCareSim now supports weight-based and weight-based continuous medication orders. Instructors can build orders that calculate doses from the patient’s documented weight, including support for divided daily doses across multiple administrations.
On the student side, the calculated dose and the weight used are displayed transparently so students can verify the math themselves. If no weight has been documented, the system blocks administration and prompts the student to document weight first, reinforcing the same safety practice they’ll follow in clinical settings.
Medication Workflow Improvements
A handful of smaller changes round out this release. The administration form now shows only the documentation fields relevant to each medication, reducing clutter. Vital signs documented during medication administration are automatically saved as flowsheet entries, eliminating a redundant documentation step. And students can import recently documented vitals directly into the administration window when they’ve already been recorded within the last hour.
These are the kinds of workflow refinements that add up quickly in a simulation session, keeping students focused on clinical reasoning instead of fighting the software.
More to Come
We have more features on the way. Stay tuned for the next update!