Why ATLAS eMAR is the essential solution for medication leads in care homes
Whether it’s ensuring the timely and accurate ordering or administering of medications, maintaining stock levels or overseeing the medication reporting processes put in place by your home, we understand that the job of a medication lead is full of challenges and responsibilities. If you’re a medication lead, then you’ll know it’s important to have all of these functions and more in one place, and that’s exactly what ATLAS eMAR provides.
As a medication lead, you want to be confident that the system that has been put in place allows you to focus on other crucial aspects of overall medication management. For example, ATLAS eMAR’s barcode technology, which scans barcodes that are specific to each resident to ensure that no errors are made in administration, allowing those who are responsible for medication rounds the confidence to know that they are administering medications safely and effectively. This leaves you free to focus on other areas, such as stock ordering and control, ensuring staff are trained to the latest standards, and ensuring all residents under your care are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.
Never run out of stock again thanks to ATLAS eMAR
One of the most useful features of the ATLAS eMAR system is the default warning, which gives you nine days' notice that a medicine is running low. This warning is issued when the medication is administered, so anyone responsible for medication has plenty of notice and time to order more stock by placing an order with your chosen GP. The GP will then send it to the pharmacy, and the pharmacy will then input it into their system. As soon as it’s in the pharmacy’s computer system, you will be able to see the item and you can see that it’s out for delivery. In this simple step, you get a full 360-degree view of the medication ordering process.
Not only that, but you can also check how the monthly medication order is doing by going into the system and looking at any items that are outstanding. This means you can make sure, for example, if the GP hasn’t written a prescription for a resident and you need to chase this, you’re in the best position to do so. You’re not waiting for the medication to arrive, only then to have to work out what’s missing after everything has been booked in, because you’ll know upfront.
To add to this, because of ATLAS eMAR’s two-way integration with pharmacies and the integration with GP Connect via Person Centred Software’s digital care planning system, mCare, if changes are made to a resident’s medication, you’ll be able to see this happen. At one time, you might find yourself frustrated at only finding out about changes to medication when it’s too late, but with ATLAS eMAR, you’ll have the level of oversight to ensure that doesn’t happen.
Streamlined, efficient booking in with ATLAS eMAR
As a medication lead, you’ve probably been in a situation where, when booking in medications, you’ve lost an entire morning, or even a day, making sure that everything is signed in and organised appropriately – ensuring that nothing is missing or incorrect. That type of paperwork is a thing of the past with ATLAS eMAR. Our medication management system allows for a streamlined booking-in process of stock.
ATLAS eMAR ensures that the whole process is as streamlined as possible, meaning that you can take a task that would have taken hours and do it in a matter of minutes.
ATLAS eMAR brings everything you need together – all in one place
Ultimately, ATLAS eMAR has been designed to ensure that the entire medication management process – from administration to stock control and reporting – is simple, streamlined and effective, and all to be found within a few clicks. So many processes that would have taken up entire days are now right at your fingertips whenever you need them and updated in real-time.
ATLAS eMAR doesn’t just provide a safer, more efficient and regulatory-friendly system for managing medications, it provides you with the time you need to ensure that your other duties are not neglected.
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