Are you responsible for managing  medication in a care setting?

Discover how ATLAS eMAR can significantly enhance resident safety and ensure high-quality care while streamlining your daily tasks 

If you're responsible for managing or administrating medication to residents in a care setting, you'll understand the critical role of ensuring medications are accurate, given on time, and in the correct dosage.

Medication management is not just a routine task; it plays a critical role in the overall healthcare of each resident, requiring a high level of accuracy and careful attention from care staff, making it a huge responsibility.

ATLAS has helped to improve medication accuracy and streamline medication administration in thousands of care homes across the UK:

"When our care home group discovered ATLAS and read about its benefits, we immediately switched from our old eMAR system to ATLAS, and it proved to be one of our best decisions.

ATLAS offers numerous advantages and is well-known across the care sector for reducing errors, improving accuracy, efficiency, communication, and, most importantly, enhancing safety."

Denisa Ciobanu Vida, registered manager at Fewcott House Nursing Home

"The ATLAS handheld devices are revolutionising how our team Members administer medication, ensuring accuracy every single time. This cutting-edge system conducts real-time safety checks that cover essential aspects like dosage, timing, and updates to each Member's medical information. With the powerful safety features of ATLAS, we can significantly reduce the risk of medication errors, ultimately prioritising our Member's safety and enhancing the quality of care provided."

Cheryl Baird, Director of Care Operations at Loveday & Co

ATLAS provides alerts and notifications for missed doses, expired medications, and potential drug interactions, further helping to prevent medication errors. 

The system's handheld device, equipped with built-in barcode scanners, enables care teams to scan the barcodes on dispensing labels at the point of administration, verifying whether the scanned medicine is correct for the resident. If the medicine is incorrect, the system immediately alerts the carer of an error.

Utilising this barcode technology has significantly enhanced resident safety across a large number of care homes.   

ATLAS not only makes it easy for care staff to manage medication administration effectively and reduce the risk of medication errors, but the system also saves time in the following areas:   

With ATLAS, every medication transaction in the care home can be logged, along with unique staff codes, providing a complete audit trail; this gives care home managers complete oversight of all activities.

Mangers can also request a full independent audit of their care home's medicine management, which can often be used as evidence to support their own CQC self-submissions.