Make Medication Rounds Safer and Easier with ATLAS eMAR

If you are someone who manages medications in care homes, then you’ll know how challenging it can be to maintain efficient and effective administration of medications whilst also ensuring resident safety and wellbeing. That’s why it’s crucial that you invest in technologies that can help to make medication rounds safer and easier. 

This is so important because when it comes to something as critical as medication management, there's no room for guesswork. The smallest gap in real-time information can mean the difference between a serious error and a life-saving intervention. 

Eliminate the mistakes caused by paper records 

To find that perfect balance between efficiency and safety, an electronic medication management system like ATLAS eMAR will help you because it can streamline many of the areas where safety could be at risk, such as the medication administration process but also stock control, ordering and the reporting processes. 

How ATLAS eMAR will help you remain organised and safe in your medication management 

Using ATLAS eMAR, care staff responsible for administering medications can scan the barcode of the medication using the handheld device. When they do, they will be notified as to who the dose needs to be given to and at what time and will also give you a series of notifications to warn if stock is running low. This will greatly assist in cutting down on avoidable errors caused by outdated information or miscommunication. 

These real-time alerts and reminders will also ensure that you are given plenty of notice when stock is running low, which means you can avoid running out entirely before new stocks come in, but also you avoid the unnecessary expense of overstocking, which also saves money. 

Where you will find time saving elements in booking in of medications during rounds, the real benefits lie within reducing risk and increasing safety. It will reduce much of the paperwork that has often take up so much time of care staff during the day, meaning they will be free to dedicate more time to medication rounds, without having to rush through them.

It will give you oversight to understand if medication rounds could be quicker, however, because it will give you a detailed audit trail on when medications were administered, so if you as someone who oversees medication management can see that medications are being administered too slowly, with large gaps between administrations (which could affect dosage windows), then you can gain critical insight into how to make the process more efficient. 

Overall, ATLAS eMAR will vastly improve safety in medication administration directly through features such as barcode scanning, but it will also enhance safety through efficiencies gained in other areas such as stock control. It will give you the time you need to focus on administering medications safely and remove many of the issues that have often contributed to errors in the past. 

How ATLAS eMAR helps to keep residents safe